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The week on fundeye

News Team, 22/03/2019

fundeye is PAM Insight’s new news service, linked to a state-of-the-art fund data and document publication and dissemination platform at fundeye.com, managed by Geneva-based Carnegie Fund Services.

The platform is the first to provide a genuine one-stop information gathering solution for professional fund investors. This new fundeye service is free to subscribers of thewealthnet, so we encourage you to register for this service and share it with professional colleagues.

Each week, thewealthnet will bring you a digest of the top fundeye stories from the week:

1. Seilern Investment Management, a London-based investment management boutique, told Fundeye it aims to increase its presence significantly in the UK and Europe.

2. The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) released its next generation of dividend heroes, the investment companies on its way to raising dividends for 20 years but presently have raised its dividends for at least 10 years.

3. BMO GAM multi-manager team revealed that the average active fund has outperformed the average passive fund in three out of five Lipper Global sectors.

4. River and Mercantile Group said that investors should be more than willing to take on risk within portfolios as the current downturn cycle comes to a close and markets shift into a ‘stability’ phase.

5. The Legg Mason IF Martin Currie Emerging Markets (EMs) Fund was added to the Adviser Centre's 'recommended' fund list.

6. AJ Bell launched two income funds which have been designed for advisers and clients focused on generating a regular income from their investments.

7. UK wealth manager Kingswood Holdings partnered with its affiliate Moor Park Capital Partners, an independent real estate investment firm, to broaden Kingswood’s alternative investment product offering.

8. Franklin Templeton strengthened its EM equity team by hiring Nicole Vettise as senior vice president, institutional portfolio manager (IPM) within its Emerging Markets Equity’s (FTEME) investment team.

9. Kames Capital strengthened its fixed income team by hiring two investment specialists.

10. Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) received two awards at the annual UK Lipper Fund Awards.

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