GARS

Hargreaves Lansdown's legal challenge to HMRC's move to tax platform rebates was the story of most interest to Investment Week's readers this week.

This summer has been "a baptism of fire" for Standard Life Investments' £18.5bn Global Absolute Return Strategies(GARS)fund, according to strategist Andy Ford.

Invesco Perpetual has rolled out its first multi-asset fund strategy for former Standard Life Investments' (SLI) managers David Millar, Dave Jubb and Richard Batty.

Invesco Perpetual is preparing to roll out its answer to Standard Life Investments' GARS fund with the trio of managers it poached from the group.

The managers of Standard Life Investment's giant £18bn Global Absolute Return Strategies fund have put in place four key trades ahead of an expected uptick in volatility in September, which they expect to benefit investors into 2014.

SPECIAL REPORT

Group works to reassure investors after key departures.

Standard Life Investments is preparing to roll out a number of regional variants of its £18bn Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) fund, as well as a simplified version of the vehicle, Investment Week can reveal.

Standard Life Investments (SLI) is reviewing its remuneration policy after Euan Munro became the latest star name to announce his departure from the firm last week.

As detailed in the last issue of Investment Week the June sell-off, notable for a rise in correlations across asset classes, caused a lot of problems for funds that rely on diversification to flourish.