In many ways it was a typical August for the funds industry, with the usual summer malaise prompting a sales slump which saw long-term fund flows end the month marginally in the red, at just under €1bn.
Yet again, the launch train rolled on in August with a total of 142 new funds coming to market, together gathering over €7bn of assets. As usual, there were lots of new ESG offerings and Invesco continued to build out its ETF range. The most interesting launches for …
Success is a fickle jade, particularly for specialist asset managers reliant on a limited product suite and outsize performance to compete in today's challenging market environment. Cold comfort, perhaps, for emerging markets supremo Ashmore Group, which plummeted down the master group rankings in August with outflows of €1bn, …
In many ways it was a typical August for the funds industry, with the usual summer malaise prompting a sales slump which saw long-term fund flows end the month marginally in the red, at just under €1bn.
August was another dire month for the UK funds industry as the prospect of weakening global growth combined with worries of a no-deal Brexit. Asset managers saw a sea of red as investors withdrew in their hoards, although total redemptions were not quite as high as in previous …
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Swedish asset managers had more than just Mifid 2 to think about as 2018 dawned – January also saw the implementation of a new rule forcing funds there to report their management of various sustainability aspects. Along with a handful of other countries, Sweden has long been at …
