Schroders

Current investment theory and practice runs the risk of failing investors at their time of greatest need, a new group of investment managers warns.

EUROPE - Europe's cental bank and even the IMF should share in the haircuts on Greek debt that seem increasingly inevitable for private bondholders,UK asset manager Schroders claims.

CHINA - Schroders head of Asia ex-Japan equities, Robin Parbrook, has poured scorn on returns made by investors in China in the last two decades, and warned the country still faces major challenges.

Schroders is aiming to make active management more available to defined contribution investors by adapting a performance-related fee structure for one of its long-running global equity funds.

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Schroders has hired Matthias Scheiber as a fund manager in its expanding multi-asset business.

Scottish Life has switched providers for its UK Mid Cap Specialist and US Core Plus Pension funds after a governance review.

How DC schemes are coping with volatility

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Schroders has launched five synthetic gilt funds to hedge against interest and inflation risk as it seeks to push further into the growing liability-driven investment market.