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BlackRock Commodities Income Investment Trust changes name

Mon, 13/05/2019 - 14:35

The BlackRock Commodities Income Investment Trust has changed its named to the BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust plc (the Trust) to better reflect its investment universe, which consists predominantly of energy and mining equities as opposed to commodities. »

Amundi appoints Head of Credit Research, Fixed Income

Mon, 13/05/2019 - 14:33

Amundi has appointed Richard Deutsch as Head of Credit Research, Fixed income. He will be based in London. »

Kames Capital appoints head of high yield

Mon, 13/05/2019 - 14:31

Kames Capital has appointed Thomas Hanson as its new head of high yield fixed income team in Edinburgh. »

Caspian appoints Bletchley Park Asset Management co-founder as adviser

Mon, 13/05/2019 - 14:29

Caspian, a full-stack crypto trading and risk management platform for institutional investors and sophisticated traders, has appointed Bletchley Park Asset Management Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer Lewis Fellas to its board of strategic advisers. »

Liquidnet acquires RSRCHXchange

Mon, 13/05/2019 - 14:27

Liquidnet, a global institutional investment network, has acquired RSRCHXchange, a marketplace and aggregator for institutional research. Liquidnet will now be able to deliver relevant, actionable insights directly to investment teams through the Liquidnet platform. »

American Century Investments and Nomura Asset Management collaborate on new Global Small Cap Equity Fund

Mon, 13/05/2019 - 10:11

American Century Investments (ACI) and Nomura Asset Management (NAM) have launched the Nomura Funds Ireland - American Century Global Small Cap Equity Fund, which aims to deliver long-term capital growth by investing primarily in small-cap companies in both developed and emerging economies. »

East Capital forms advisory partnership with Credicorp Capital Asset Management

Mon, 13/05/2019 - 10:09

East Capital, a specialist in emerging and frontier markets, has agreed a new investment advisory partnership with Credicorp Capital Asset Management to boost the firm’s insight into economies, markets and stocks in Latin America. »

iM Global Partner now offering Amundi Funds Polen Capital Global Growth in UCITS format

Mon, 13/05/2019 - 09:42

iM Global Partner and Polen Capital are now offering Polen Capital’s Global Growth strategy to investors in a UCITS fund hosted by Amundi. The fund seeks to outperform – after applicable fees – the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) over any given five-year period. »

AllianceBernstein adopts OpenFin OS

Mon, 13/05/2019 - 09:40

Global asset management firm AllianceBernstein has adopted OpenFin OS for its new desktop technology infrastructure, allowing integration and interoperability with legacy and third-party applications without the need to rewrite legacy code. »

Scout Investments adds senior analyst to small cap equity team

Mon, 13/05/2019 - 09:37

Scout Investments, an investment management firm and affiliate of Carillon Tower Advisers, has appointed Timothy Burger, CFA, as a senior analyst on the firm’s Small Cap team. »