Investec

The Big Question

Gold ETFs have started seeing inflows for the first time in months, as political turmoil in the Ukraine and weak Chinese data pushed investors into safe havens.

THE BIG QUESTION

The TwentyFour Select Monthly Income trust has met its minimum fundraising target despite an increasingly difficult market for trust IPOs.

Investec Asset Management's plans to launch preferentially priced share classes for key distributors have been thrown into doubt after the country's largest D2C platforms revealed no evidence of such deals.

THE BIG QUESTION

Analysts at Numis have compared charges from the likes of Barclays, Brewin, Coutts and Rathbones to investigate how industry fees stack up against platforms' newly-unveiled clean prices.

Multi-asset managers have been hiking their cash weightings after a rocky start to the year for global equity markets.

Some of the UK's leading fund groups are understood to be holding talks about their relationships with intermediaries and other partners following the release of new FCA rules.

Investec is considering the sale of Kensington, its intermediary mortgage business in the UK, and has appointed Fenchurch Advisory to conduct the procedure.