Fixed income

Cumbria City Council has awarded the £130m fixed income mandate of its pension scheme to Standard Life Investments.

Aberdeen Asset Management's assets under management have risen by 10% despite seeing no increase in net new business, its final results show.

Threadneedle has appointed John Peta as senior fund manager leading the firm's emerging market debt team as well as three other hires within its global fixed income team.

Fees for equity managers are around 70% higher than those charged by fixed income specialists, according to a survey by analytical services firm Camradata Live.

Sponsors will be forced to support schemes for the next five to ten years because the relationship between risk-free assets and inflation is "broken", UBS says.

Friends Life has launched an in-house asset management business to manage the firm's fixed income assets.

Andrew Short examines why global equities are back in favour

The panellists discuss if pension schemes should be upping their allocation to fixed income, the ramifications of the budget and the 100-year bond

S&P Capital IQ has launched a new fund grading system and methodology to meet the changing needs of investors.

Andrew Short looks at why dividends could be making a comeback