Mutual funds: News
Leveraged loan fund from BlueBay 20/11/2008
BlueBay Asset Management, one of Europe's largest independent managers of fixed income credit products, has announced the launch of its High Income Loan Fund.
Performance fees don't lead to performance improvement, study finds 20/08/2008
The increasing use of performance fees amongst investment companies has not in itself lead to investment managers performing better, according to new research issued today by leading business and financial advisers Grant Thornton.
Dawnay Day aiming to maximise European stockmarket returns 17/07/2007
Following the success of its original structured investment, the European Stockmarket Maximiser, Dawnay Day Quantum said it would be launching a second edition of the product, offering investors index-beating returns in the European equity markets.
Smaller companies fund to invest in emerging markets 31/01/2007
Aberdeen Asset Managers is launching a smaller companies fund in March to tap into the under-researched small caps story in developing countries.
Shareholders Gain, Creditors Often Lose, Says S&P Report on stock boosting deals 30/08/2006
As institutional investors have sought to bolster shareholder returns in recent years by engaging in shareholder-enhancing deals, such as stock buybacks, extra dividends, leveraged buyouts, or corporate restructurings, Standard & Poor's believes that the impact of such deals on credit quality is very rarely positive, occasionally neutral, and too often negative.
