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Zurich expands fund range
In response to growing demand from intermediaries and their clients, Zurich is introducing an additional range of funds to its investment and pensions propositions.
Legal & General acquires two West End properties
Legal & General's Linked Pensions Fund has completed the acquisition of two further West End office investments.
Strong fundamentals support European equities in 2007
Presenting to IFAs at the sixth annual Joint Investment Forum, Roger Guy highlighted the reasons why he and Guillaume Rambourg, co-managers of the Gartmore European Selected Opportunities Fund and the Gartmore SICAV Continental European Fund, believe European equities have the potential to perform well in 2007.
Further Gartmore funds added to Standard Life Pensions platform
Standard Life have added a further two Gartmore Funds to their Pensions platform. The additions are the £452m Gartmore Cautious Managed Fund and the £656m Gartmore Corporate Bond Fund.
M&G announces the launch of the M&G Cautious Multi Asset Fund
M&G has announced the launch of the M&G Cautious Multi Asset Fund, a dynamic new multi-asset fund managed by Citywire AAA rated manager David Jane. The fund will be launched in late February 2007, subject to FSA approval.
Standard Life Investments makes 1st direct investment in Polish property market
Standard Life Investments, one of the largest property fund managers in Europe, today announced that it has made its first direct investment in the Polish property market.
FundsNetwork unveils best selling sectors on the platform over 2006
Fidelity FundsNetwork, the UK’s leading investment platform, has revealed the top 10 best selling sectors on the platform for 2006, based on total sales across all available product types, (including ISAs, SIPPS and Onshore Investment Bond wrappers).
Quarterly Investment Outlook Q1 2007 from F&C Asset Management
Quarterly Investment Outlook Q1 2007 from F&C Asset Management plc.
Double tops for SLI funds
Standard Life Investments kicked off the New Year by welcoming the news that two of its mutual funds had topped their respective peer groups in 2006.
Business risks facing Technology, Media and Telecoms companies
A new report from F&C Asset Management focuses on the core risks facing technology, media and telecoms (TMT) companies surrounding the issues of Access, Security and Privacy (ASP).
Threadneedle: The outlook for US technology sector – January 2007
Investors have tended to be wary of the technology sector since the ‘dot com’ bust in the early part of this decade.
Morley launches emerging market local currency bond fund
Morley Fund Management via Aviva Fund Services has launched the Aviva Morley Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond Fund targeted at European and UK institutional and retail investors.
Inflation rears its head again
Ted Scott, Manager of the F&C UK Growth & Income Fund, comments: “The rise in the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) to 3% is the highest for 11 years but it did not come as a surprise following the unexpected increase in interest rates last week.
Fidelity Global Special Situations Fund off to a strong start
The Fidelity Global Special Situations Fund has made a strong debut by delivering returns of 5.3% over the fourth quarter of 2006 - well ahead of the 3.4% return from its benchmark, the MSCI World Index.
Schroder UK Mid 250 in a league of its own
Schroder UK Mid 250 Fund is the only fund in the UK All Companies sector to deliver 1st quartile returns over each of the last SEVEN calendar years.