Barings Asset Management

Jupiter vice chairman Edward Bonham Carter has questioned the number of groups launching multi-asset funds, with the majority attracting little interest from fund buyers.

Thailand has been gripped by political unrest since last November, with its stock market enduring a tumultuous ride over the last seven months, but which funds have maintained their overweights, and how have they fared?

Part II: Where is the best value: Large, mid, or small caps?

Former HSBC global fixed income head Guy Dunham has been appointed head of global and aggregate at Barings.

Old Mutual Global Investors has attracted the most retail inflows of all fund groups in the first quarter of the year, as investors flock to the group's UK star Richard Buxton.

Barings has appointed emerging markets specialist Jean-Louis Scandella as head of equities.

Baring Asset Management is to shut its Corporate Bond fund on 2 May following several years of poor performance and a series of large redemptions, Investment Week can reveal.

Multi-asset managers have begun to add exposure to emerging market debt (EMD) after yields on dollar-denominated debt rose above those on junk bonds for the first time since 2005.

Holdings in cash among wealth managers have been rising in recent months as profit-taking off the back of rising equity markets, coupled with fears over slowing global growth, prompt valuation fears for some risk assets.

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