UK insurers’ fortunes vary in investment industry first half
The half year numbers out from three of the UK’s largest insurance companies over the past few days illustrate the increasing importance of backing the right asset management horse.
Aviva says property trust will stay shut until 2017
Aviva Investors has advised that its property trust will stay closed to trading for another six to eight months.
Nearly all Australian advisers open to using smart beta
The majority of financial advisers working in Australia would consider investments in smart beta strategies, a new survey by asset manager VanEck has found.
Commodities | 10 Aug 16
Bonds are the new commodities in a ‘dangerous neighbourhood’– JP Morgan
A negative yielding bond is trading like a commodity, according to Oksana Aronov, managing director of JP Morgan’s Income Opportunity Fund.
LGIM’s profits slip despite rise in international assets
Legal & General Investment Management’s profit slipped by a marginal 3% to £171m in the first half of the year versus the same period in 2015.