fixed income

Rod Davidson is joining Scottish Widows Investment Partnership as its global head of fixed income.

Legal and General Investment Management has just confirmed Roger Bartley will head up its fixed income asset management team which includes the launch of a new operation in Chicago.

Shares in Aberdeen Asset Management are up 13p to 136p today after the company announced a £200m-plus deal to buy two strands of fund management business from Deutsche Asset Management.

Ewan McAlpine has switched investment houses to become sterling fixed income product specialist at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers.

The European Fund Categorisation Forum (EFCF), a cross-border group of fund management companies and financial information providers working with FEFSI - the pan-EU equivalent of the UK's IMA - has agreed a new system for classifying fixed income funds....

Investors should continue to invest in fixed income products, say Gartmore fund managers, because despite recnt price swings in the bond market and increasing interest in equities, it has been on the back of historically good returns and portfolios need...

When Swiss bank UBS stuck its neck out in the last quarter of 2003 to declare the Bear market was officially over, more than a few sniggers were heard around the City.