Investment

UK - Four Swiss Life Asset Management ex-staffers have set up an asset manager boutique, focusing on long-only equity funds.

Almost 90pc of UK Society of Investment Professionals members have voted to change the group's name to the CFA Society of the UK.

Barclays Capital has enhanced its liability driven investment offering with the launch of a swap indices family.

Combining a more efficient approach to passive equity management with a portable structural bond strategy could be the "Holy Grail" of investing, delegates heard.

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Laven Partners has teamed up with Hinde Capital to launch the world's first dedicated gold hedge fund.

Standard & Poor's has launched three new Shariah indices to meet demand from Islamic investors.

BNP Paribas Securities Services is launching a UK fund-hosting business with its first clients scheduled for early next year.

Bond yields are unlikely to move much beyond 5pc given current pension fund activity, Pimco claims.