Investment

SCHRODERS is exploring the potential of defined contribution lifestyle funds that react to market conditions rather than automatically switch assets at a fixed point.

MERCER Investment Consulting and Deutsche Bank have teamed up to launch a multi-manager currency investment product.

Schemes should look at emerging market debt denominated in local currencies for some of the best potential returns this year, PIMCO says.

ABERDEEN Asset Manage-ment is launching an emerging markets smaller companies fund amid rising interest in the asset class from institutional investors.

Chairman Peter Sparshott Director PricewaterhouseCoopers Sparshott has worked for Pricewaterh...

PRIVATE equity group 3i has announced plans to list a new infrastructure investment company on the London Stock Exchange.

PRECIOUS metals were the best-performing asset class in 2006, figures from Clerical Medical reveal.

At the beginning of each year it is human nature to look back over the previous 12 months and to spec...

STANDARD Asset Manage-ment has closed its Miami operation and centralised all its activities in the UK.

VERIFICATION of investment performance figures should be mandatory when global standards are reviewed in 2010, UK institutional investors have urged.