David Thorpe

It won’t take Sherlock Holmes to find smiling faces in Baker Street this week-its where Pimco’s London office is and some of the folk there are celebrating winning a £345mn mandate from Quilter.

The US economy is, says Michael Browne, global investment strategist at Franklin Templeton, a bit dull right now.

Active fund management may be on something of a decline, but no one told the folks at Artemis, with the firm seeing inflows as the value style of investing roars back into vogue.

Even veteran music supervisors can be stumped. When I ask Julia Michels what song she would choose to capture her experience as the music

Many factors make government bond yields move, with inflation fears, interest rate expectations and political uncertainty all near the top of the list.

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A desire among some clients to have a lower-cost option that corresponded to their existing risk profile led Omnis, the investment management arm of the Openwork network, to appoint Legal and General to run a suite of new funds, according to Rohit Vaswani, an investment director at the firm.

With the inflationary impact of the Strait of Hormuz being much more muted than many expected, there is “no need to cut rates”, according to Guy Miller, chief market strategist and economist at Zurich.

Some of the portfolios run by Openwork’s Omnis unit have struggled due to having a more cautious outlook on equity markets, but Patrick O’Donnell, chief investment strategist, says it’s a position they are sticking with.

Equity income investment in the US may be on the cusp of change, thanks to a combination of demographic change and government policies, managers have said.