Investment Funds

SLI'S EPGF to fund 70m Tarawa Retail park in Poland

Standard Life Investments, one of the largest property investors in Europe, has signed an agreement with developers Helical Poland to fund a 170m retail park near Opole in Poland.

Barclays launches new suite of protected investments

Barclays Wealth, one of the UK's leading suppliers of capital protected investments, is launching a new suite of plans for investors seeking shelter from ongoing market volatility.

High prices benefit rice exporters

The Asian middle class consumer remains the main attraction to investing in the region, despite alarming headlines about the recent acceleration in rising soft commodity prices and their negative impact on the average household budget.

Beatles, Beckham and... bonus schemes

As shareholders around the world pore over thousands of ballots for this year's proxy voting season, the US will see its first-ever UK-style advisory vote on pay, when investors in Aflac, a mid-sized insurer, becomes the first US company to invite its owners to approve its compensation report.

Oil industry faces challenge of deep water extraction

Global demand for energy is pushing the frontier of oil exploration into deep-water locations below the ocean floor. In these locations, the water is too deep for operators to use conventional freestanding steel platforms.

Chinese banks post sharp increases in profits

Chinese banks have posted strong results for the first quarter of 2008, helped by robust lending, strong growth of wealth management products and a cut in the corporate tax rate from 33% to 25% in January 2008.

Investors not cautious about total return

JPMorgan Asset Management has announced that the JPM Cautious Total Return Fund is seeing its best sales growth ever, having doubled its assets under management from around £200m in August 2007 to over £400m today.

LV= and Lighthouse Group announce fund distribution deal

LV= Asset Management (LVAM), the fund management arm of mutual insurance and investment group LV=, and Lighthouse Group have agreed a distribution deal for four proposed OEIC sub-funds.

Chinese growth to be sustained in the medium and long term

Baring Asset Management (Barings) believes that problems in credit markets will not derail the long-term secular growth story in China and Asia.

SWIP adds new fund to Select Boutiques

JOHCM UK Opportunities Fund, managed by John Wood, has been selected by the SWIP Multi Manager team for addition to the UK equity blend of the fund, which currently accounts for 50% of SWIP Multi Manager Select Boutique's total allocation.

Invesco Perpetual launches European equities and bonds fund

Invesco Perpetual today announced the launch of the Invesco Perpetual European High Income Fund, a new fund providing a flexible combination of European equities and bonds.

JOHCM: Earnings headwinds affects global economic growth story

Rod Marsden, Senior Fund Manager of the JOHCM Continental European Fund and JOHCM European Fund, shares his thoughts on the outlook for European equities: "The past year has been a difficult time for many parts of the market as we have seen from the looming downturn in industrial growth.

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