JP Morgan
Fixed Income | 28 Jul 17
Bond investors sleepwalking into duration risk
Two asset managers have warned that bond investors, particularly those in passive vehicles, are too exposed to duration risk without realising it.
PEOPLE MOVES: Old Mutual director runs for Zimbabwe presidency
An Old Mutual director is to run for president of Zimbabwe, while Old Mutual Asset Management and Axa Asia are both losing their chief executives. Deutsche Bank Wealth Management has appointed a former Coutts & Co chief executive to head up its UK business.
PEOPLE MOVES: JP Morgan AM, Prudential, Mirae Asset
Stephanie Flanders is to leave JP Morgan Asset Management, while Prudential has named a financial planning and strategy director for its advisory firm. Mirae Asset Global Investments has a new head of Nordic sales.
ANALYSIS: Has Abenomics saved Japan’s ‘lost generation’?
Japan’s economy is beginning to show signs of life, but is this another false dawn, or a sign that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s reforms are working?
JP Morgan: It’s time to start loving industrials again
The global economy is finally emerging from the doldrums of the financial crisis and it is a prime time to move into more ‘unloved’ industries says Francesco Conte, co-manager of JP Morgan’s European smaller companies investment trust.