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CORPORATE BOND

iShares has launched three ultra-short bond ETFs and two short duration bond ETFs as investors seek out new ways to protect themselves if interest rates start to rise.

Aberdeen Asset Management is launching two bond funds for its Luxembourg range and an institutional property fund investing in European real estate.

Kames Capital's fixed income specialists David Roberts and Philip Milburn are seeing value return to long-dated bonds following the recent spike in bond yields.

Canada Life Investments is planning to launch an onshore version of the Putnam Global High Yield Bond fund managed by its sister company Putnam Investments.

Kleinwort Benson has hired Fadi Zaher from Barclays Wealth & Investment Management as head of bonds and currencies.

PIMCO's Bill Gross has said the Federal Reserve and other central banks are to blame for "the current shipwreck" that is the global economy.

Andrew Wilmont, head of European high yield at AXA Investment Managers, has left the firm, handing his funds to James Gledhill.

Investment manager GAM has slowed inflows into its catastrophe bond fund, launched in the fourth quarter of last year, due to capacity constraints in the sector.

As the volatility index trends downwards investors should be selling - not buying - risk assets, said Kames Capital's David Roberts and Phil Milburn as they warned the eurozone crisis will return to haunt markets.