Standard Life investments

This has not been a good year for President Obama. His opinion poll ratings have fallen as worries about entrenched unemployment have risen.

Real estate is one of the few asset classes to provide reasonable positive returns year to date, but is this sustainable? asks Simon Kinnie, senior real estate analyst Standard Life Investments.

Investors could be faced with a plethora of fund charging models post-RDR as well as higher overall costs and ‘premium' prices for a top tier of better performing funds or specialist mandates.

Standard Life Investments' £8.7bn Global Absolute Return Strategies fund took profits in one of its major trades amid elevated market volatility over the summer.

Standard Life Investments'(SLI) third party net flows were £3.5bn for the first nine months of 2011 as sales into funds including the GARS range remained buoyant.

Standard Life Investments' (SLI) Andrew Sutherland has revamped the £87m Strategic Bond fund by significantly raising his high yield exposure from 15% to 50%.

Bullish move by Standard Life Investments manager to profit from poor investor sentiment towards the space.

Fund of funds head Bambos Hambi outlines his ambitious plans for Standard Life Investments' multi-manager range.

Managers are moving back into global equity markets as the VIX ‘fear index' falls from a recent peak.

Standard Life Investments' Harry Nimmo has admitted he made a "huge mistake" offloading his holding in Supergroup last month and is looking to buy back into the stock.