Lazard Asset Management has launched a low volatility, quant-based equity fund.
Europe is at the centre of growing unease regarding the state of the global economy.
Peter Mandelson, the Labour party peer and former European Commissioner, has warned Europe is facing not one but four crises which policymakers must tackle.
Alex Ingham has left Aviva Investors to join Lazard Asset Management where he will launch a small-cap emerging markets fund for retail investors.
Lazard Asset Management is planning a fund located in Ireland, based on the group's $500m multi-asset class emerging markets investment program, which has run in a US-based portfolio since mid-2009.
Multi-managers at OPM Fund Management are targeting funds in emerging markets and energy sectors in the recently-launched Worldwide Opportunities fund.