GAM

GAM is removing the cap on its GAM Star Discretionary FX fund, allowing greater monthly subscriptions into the portfolio.

Gam has launched a Ucits III long/short fund with an emerging markets remit for investment director Sean Taylor.

Gam has soft-launched a market neutral credit fund for retail investors, raising $50m (£32m) for the product in eight weeks.

Lagging Japanese equity market proves challenging for Asia Pacific inc Japan funds

Liontrust is planning to launch a credit fund in the third quarter, despite axing Ross Hollyman's newly-hired global equities team to concentrate on existing offerings.

Gam is planning to launch its environmental fund in October, marking the group's first foray into single manager environmental investing.

Mark Hawtin, the manager of the Gam Star Absolute Europe fund, is taking a 24% position in technology as he begins to view the sector positively for the first time in 10 years.

Standard Life's Global Absolute Return Strategy was the top selling European total return vehicle in Q1 as the sector saw record sales in Europe, according to Lipper.

Gam is to launch an environmental fund in the fourth quarter for latest hire Paul Udall.

GAM is preparing to soft-close two of its most recently launched funds, Star Global Rates and Star Discretionary FX.