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Steve Shafer, CIO and Portfolio Manager of Covenant Global Investors

Covenant Financial Services changes name to Covenant Global Investors

Fri, 27/01/2012 - 16:00
Covenant Financial Services, the management company for the Covenant family of target-return, global macro hedge funds and separately managed accounts, has changed its trade name to “Covenant Global Investors.” »

Steven Solmonson, Spectrum Asset Management

Solmonson joins Spectrum Asset Management

Fri, 27/01/2012 - 14:00
Spectrum Asset Management has strengthened it institutional sales efforts with the appointment of Steven Solmonson who joined the firm in mid-January. »

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eSecLending and ISS join forces to help institutional investors optimise securities lending

Fri, 27/01/2012 - 13:08
eSecLending, a leading global securities lending agent, has launched a new service called ProxyValue, designed to help institutional investors maximise income generated from the lending of securities while ensuring proxy voting fiduciary duties are met. »

Stéphane Monier, Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income and Currencies at LOIM

LOIM and IST launch fundamentally weighted sovereign bond fund

Fri, 27/01/2012 - 12:00
Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) has extended its cooperation with IST Anlagestiftung, with an agreement to offer a sovereign bond fund using LOIM’s fundamental weight driven (FWD) benchmark approach. »

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RAM secures mandates from two emerging European funds

Fri, 27/01/2012 - 10:00
Renaissance Asset Managers (RAM) has acquired the investment management mandate for two further Emerging European funds within Griffin Umbrella Fund plc with assets totalling USD116m. This development follows the acquisition of the Griffin Eastern European Fund with assets of USD252m, one of the oldest and best established funds in the emerging markets universe, announced in December 2011. Following this final transaction, total RAM assets under management will rise from USD2.4bn to USD2.8bn. »

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Marcus Bullus, trading director, MB Capital

Obama's undeclared election campaign makes a dream start

Fri, 27/01/2012 - 14:34
First more jobs and now a resurgent economy – January has seen President Obama's undeclared re-election campaign make a dream start, says Marcus Bullus (pictured), trading director at MB Capital… »

Graham Neilson, chief investment strategist, Cairn Capital

2012 has a good starting point even though the themes and stress points will remain the same

Wed, 25/01/2012 - 14:25
The start of this year looks very different to 2011 and 2010 even though the themes and stress points remain the same: Risk is cheaper, non government net issuance is negative, investor allocation to financials and growth related assets is low, another upturn in the global liquidity cycle is starting and Euro break up fears recently hit new highs, according to Graham Neilson, chief investment strategist, Cairn Capital… »

Terry Smith, chief executive, Fundsmith

Investment and the year ahead

Sun, 22/01/2012 - 17:59
“At Fundsmith we continue to invest in good companies at reasonable valuations and then do the most difficult thing: as little as possible,” says Terry Smith, chief executive… »

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Covenant Financial Services changes name to Covenant Global Investors
Fri, 27/01/2012 - 16:00

Covenant Financial Services, the management company for the Covenant family of target-return, global macro hedge funds and separately managed accounts, has changed its trade name to “Covenant Global Investors.”

Covenant Financial Services changes name to Covenant Global Investors
Fri, 27/01/2012 - 16:00

Covenant Financial Services, the management company for the Covenant family of target-return, global macro hedge funds and separately managed accounts, has changed its trade name to “Covenant Global Investors.”

Obama's undeclared election campaign makes a dream start
Fri, 27/01/2012 - 14:34

First more jobs and now a resurgent economy – January has seen President Obama's undeclared re-election campaign make a dream start, says Marcus Bullus (pictured), trading director at MB Capital…

Obama's undeclared election campaign makes a dream start
Fri, 27/01/2012 - 14:34

First more jobs and now a resurgent economy – January has seen President Obama's undeclared re-election campaign make a dream start, says Marcus Bullus (pictured), trading director at MB Capital…

Obama's undeclared election campaign makes a dream start
Fri, 27/01/2012 - 14:34

First more jobs and now a resurgent economy – January has seen President Obama's undeclared re-election campaign make a dream start, says Marcus Bullus (pictured), trading director at MB Capital…

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