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AEGON Asset Management launches UK opportunities fund
AEGON Asset Management is launching a UK Opportunities fund, which will aim to provide investors with consistent top quartile performance through a concentrated, high conviction stock-picking approach.
AEGON launches the UK’s first Ethical Cautions Managed fund
AEGON Asset Management is to launch the UK’s first Ethical Cautious Managed fund to the retail market on 1st March 2007.
FSA plans would give foreign firms easy ride at expense of UK investors
The Consumer Panel has today written to the FSA to say that their proposals to amend the stock exchange listing rules for offshore investment companies threaten to undermine investor protection for the sake of attracting non UK based companies to list in the UK.
Top Ten Retail Investor Buys & Sells for week ending 23 February 2007
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse, commented: “Britain’s banks were in the firing line this week, with reports that extortionate charges and unfair overdraft penalty fees were boosting profits to new highs at the expense of the ordinary consumer.
Leeds Building Society launches new tax free ISA product range
Leeds Building Society has launched a range of fixed rate tax-free ISA products, for 1,2 or 3 years.
Bradford & Bingley launches best buy one-year mini cash ISA
Bradford & Bingley has launched a one-year mini cash ISA with a fixed interest rate of 5.90% tax free p.a./AER, to help savers make the most of their tax-free savings allowance before the current tax year ends on 5 April.
Insight’s diversified target return fund marks 2 years solid performance
The Insight Investment Diversified Target Return Fund (DTR) is celebrating its second anniversary with impressive performance figures combined with exceptionally low volatility.
Will Japan put an end to the party?
Could this week's decision by the Japanese central bank to raise interest rates spell the beginning of the end to the lucrative carry trade?
Mid-cap stock successes help propel F&C European Dynamic into top decile
Stock picking success stories in European mid caps have helped propel the F&C European Dynamic Fund in top the top decile of the IMA European ex-UK sector over one year.
BoJ’s rate rise could be good news
The decision by the Bank of Japan (BoJ) to raise interest rates to 0.5% earlier in the week may serve to stimulate the Japanese economy rather than act as a break in the way that monetary tightening often affects other major economies. Notably, the Japanese are assiduous savers and are not burdened by debt like their Western counterparts. Consumers’ being paid additional interest on their savings is bullish for domestic demand.
Chris Burvill on the case for Mega Caps
During the internet bubble, it was old economy stocks and utilities that got overlooked. In the current M& A frenzy, mega caps have assumed the equity market's ‘most unloved’ mantle, says Chris Burvill, manager of the Gartmore Cautious Managed Fund.
S&P to sell mutual fund data business
In order to focus resources on its core analytical services for the global fund industry, Standard & Poor's, the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, investment research, risk evaluation, and information services announced that it is selling its mutual fund data business to Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN).
Morningstar to acquire Standard and Poor’s mutual fund data business
Morningstar, Inc., (Nasdaq: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, and Standard and Poor’s, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, (NYSE: MHP), have entered into a definitive agreement for Morningstar to acquire Standard and Poor’s mutual fund data business for $55 million in cash, subject to post-closing adjustments.
Alliance Trust: Japanese interest rate rise
The Bank of Japan raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 0.5% on Wednesday 21 February. Rates were last raised in July 2006.
Where now for global interest rates?
Quentin Fitzsimmons, Threadneedle Head of Government Bonds, offers an insight into the issues and challenges currently facing the world’s central banks.