Germany’s Sauren has launched its first balanced growth-economies fund of funds, providing an alternative to the growing number of multi-asset developing markets products run by just one manager.

Allianz Global Investors Investments Europe, the European investment platform of Allianz Global Investors, is expanding portfolio management into the Netherlands from tomorrow to run funds currently overseen by Allianz Netherlands Asset Management.

Hedge fund investor Man Group is finalising negotiations to extend its longstanding sponsorship of the Booker literary awards, promoting the arts at a time chief executive Peter Clarke said constricting public finance made corporate backing particularly...

German companies, particularly the Mittelstand, are at risk of legal action from Britain’s Serious Fraud Office if they engage in bribery, as UK anti-corruption law taking effect this week has extra-territorial reach, says investor F&C.

The price of gold is quoted in US dollars, so it makes sense to look at hedging out the risk of that paper currency moving over time, Swiss & Global’s Stephan Müller says.

There is no single way to get exposure to gold, and each route has drawbacks consensus views suggest.

Mirae Asset Global Investment is considering launching a renminbi bond fund, using its local expertise to tap China’s growing domestic bond market, at a time local currency debt products in emerging markets weather a storm of withdrawals from fixed income...

Now, who would have thought it? Retail investors, second rate citizens for many hedge funds during and since the crunch, now hold the main key to access some of the world's most sought-after managers.

The flexibility of hedge funds to navigate prevailing volatility has led HSBC’s private banking unit to be more bullish on them than no any other asset class, and despite the modest 1.5% industry returns so far this year.

RAB Capital, the embattled hedge fund manager that last week announced it would give up life as a publicly traded company, has received an offer from Asian financial firm Sunwah International Asset Management to buy two of its funds and provide extra...