VAM Funds, the specialist Luxembourg-domiciled investment firm, is launching the VAM Managed Fund in partnership with Newscape Capital Group following an intensive pre-marketing programme to offshore advisers during September and October.

London-based Threadneedle Investments has teamed up with Cass Business School and Singapore’s Management University to back a £12,000 Investment Award, alongside an internship, for an outstanding essay on economic dilemmas faced around the world.

Aviva Investors has improved its six month outlook on the global economy following September’s aggressive policy response from the world’s top three central banks (Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan).

In the run up to the US presidential election, popular analysis suggested that Republican challenger Mitt Romney was the champion of the rich, while incumbent Democrat Barack Obama represented the less privileged.

Sustainable investments by Europe’s wealthiest investors has increased by nearly 60% over the past two years, compared to an 18% increase in overall European high net worth wealth over the same period.

International workers considering re-locating to other global capitals can now compare the cost of living (and playing) at various destinations, with a London property firm creating an interactive chart for would-be travellers.

Real estate still carries the negative associations of the sub prime debt, which was one of the underlying factors behind the global financial crisis in 2008. But there are signs that the sector is being rehabilitated as investors return, drawn by the...

Amundi, the asset management collaboration between Crédit Agricole and Société Générale, is enhancing and strengthening its volatility range with the launch of Amundi Funds Absolute Volatility Arbitrage Plus.

Two-thirds of global equities fund managers are overweight Europe ex UK, despite fears of recession, unemployment, government defaults and a potential eurozone break-up, according to a sector trends report from S&P Capital IQ.

Paris-based La Française AM and S&P Capital IQ have launched a global credit fund as part of a Luxembourg-domiciled SICAV (LFP S&P Capital IQ Fund).