Corporate Bond fund

Schroders is to merge its Corporate Bond fund into the Cazenove UK Corporate Bond fund as it continues to streamline its range following the takeover of Cazenove Capital.

CORPORATE BOND

Exposure to financials has been the key performance driver for Kevin Doran's IFDS Brown Shipley Sterling Bond fund, which has gained the top spot in the IMA £ Corporate Bond sector this year.

As investors await the 'great rotation' into equities, Aviva Investors' head of multi-asset retail funds, Peter Fitzgerald, takes a look at what to expect from portfolios if bond markets were to sell off.

Investec Asset Management has launched an offshore version of John Stopford's Global Diversified Income fund.

UBS Global Asset Management is launching the UBS Sterling Corporate Bond Indexed fund, its first passive fixed income fund for the UK wholesale market.

Invesco Perpetual's Michael Matthews is to join Paul Causer and Paul Read as a co-manager on the firm's £5.8bn corporate bond fund at the end of the month.

Aberdeen has launched a Strategic Bond fund for its London-based global credit team.

Kames Capital's fixed income portfolio manager Stephen Snowden explains the reasons behind the current liquidity crisis in the corporate bond market.

The IMA has been questioning fund groups over their exposure to currencies in their fixed income funds, with the view to tightening sector definitions.