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11 November 2011 Ignis Asset Management is pleased to announce the appointment of Liisa Juntunen who will join Ignis’ distribution team in January 2012.
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13 September 2011 Following the Lehman Brother’s collapse China announced a two year infrastructure programme equivalent to 13% of its GDP. As global uncertainty continues Diamond Lee, manager of the Ignis Pacific Growth and International China funds, discusses whether China can again surprise the market with another stimulus package and what factors could affect this.
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12 September 2011 In the ever increasing globalisation of economies and markets, companies have had to develop distinct competitive advantages in order to survive and thrive against existing and new competition. Jeremy Hall, manager of the Ignis Cartesian UK Opportunities fund says although the UK is no exception to this, there is still plenty of opportunities available
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09 September 2011 Ignis Advisors, a multi-manager business unit established in November 2010, has recruited Aoifinn Devitt, principal and founder of Clontarf Capital, as Head of Client Strategies. Aoifinn was previously a specialist consultant at Cambridge Associates in London and Boston, and at Goldman Sachs. Aoifinn will be joined by two of her associates at Clontarf Capital, Javier Herranz and Cian O’Sullivan, who will further strengthen the investment team
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23 August 2011 Argonaut Capital Partners and Ignis Asset Management are pleased to announce a restructuring of the joint venture designed to support the next phase of Argonaut’s growth and development
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04 August 2011 With yields on Spanish and Italian 10 year government debt now above 6% this is now the moment of truth for the Euro. Neither the Spanish nor the Italian economies can sustain these rates of interest and their economies are too big to be "rescued" by bail-out funds
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11 July 2011 Ignis has appointed Claude A. Chene as Global Head of Distribution. Claude will commence his role and join the Ignis Board in October 2011.
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07 July 2011 Ignis Asset Management is pleased to announce a significant strengthening of its UK equity team following a restructure of the division in February 2011. Accordingly, Ignis can disclose that Mark Holden will be joining the company from Vestra Wealth to manage the £112 million Ignis UK Focus Fund.
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27 May 2011 A new Euro unit class has been launched for the top-performing €416m Ignis Argonaut European Alpha Fund, managed by Barry Norris
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23 May 2011 Speculative management, use of leverage, high cash positions and derivatives are the characteristics IFAs seek to avoid most when recommending commercial property funds, according to new research from Ignis Asset Management.
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11 April 2011 Ignis Asset Management is pleased to announce that the £11.2bn Ignis Sterling Liquidity Fund and the €1.5bn Ignis Euro Liquidity Fund have retained their AAAmmf Fitch rating.
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04 April 2011 Commercial property will deliver an income-driven total return of around 7% in 2011, offering investors a measure of protection amid current volatility as the asset class continues to decouple from equities, according to Ignis Real Estate.
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25 March 2011 Ignis Asset Management is pleased to introduce the Ignis International Emerging Markets Select Value Fund, a highly differentiated proposition in the emerging markets space. The fund¹ will employ a top down value-driven strategy to actively allocate capital - via index futures and tracker funds - to the most attractive emerging countries, rather than to individual stocks.
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09 March 2011 Ignis Asset Management has appointed Grant Peterkin to the position of senior fund manager in its Rates Team.
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28 February 2011 Ignis Asset Management has announced that it is to launch the Ignis Absolute Return Government Bond Fund at the end of March. The fund will target net returns of 2% to 3% per annum in excess of cash2 by actively trading a portfolio of global government bonds and currencies.
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01 February 2011 Fund size and a herd mentality is limiting the performance of many UK equity income funds and is undermining the sector’s ability to provide diversification for investors, argues Martin Brown, manager of the Ignis UK Equity Income Fund.
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27 January 2011 Almost half of financial advisers believe the Retail Distribution Review will result in more capital being allocated to ‘star’ fund managers, according to new research from Ignis Asset Management.
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13 January 2011 Ignis Asset Management has appointed Robert Bricout as General Counsel.
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10 January 2011 Ignis Asset Management has appointed Marcia Campbell as Director of Operations
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29 November 2010 Ignis has launched Ignis Advisers, a £2.4 billion* business unit that combines its successful fund of hedge fund, fund of real estate, fund of private equity and retail multi-manager capabilities.
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15 November 2010 Cartesian Capital Partners is pleased to announce that the £43 million Ignis International Cartesian
Enhanced Alpha Fund has celebrated its third anniversary having achieved top-decile returns for
investors.
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01 November 2010 Ignis Asset Management has launched a standalone real estate business with £2.6 billion of assets under management in order to build on a sustained period of outperformance and strong asset growth.
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29 September 2010 Ignis Asset Management is pleased to announce the recruitment of Mark Lovett as Chief Investment Officer (CIO) - Equities. Mark will join Ignis on Monday 4 October and will be responsible for overseeing more than £10 billion of institutional and retail equity assets across Ignis’ proprietary fund range.
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19 August 2010 Ignis Asset Management can confirm it has received Dublin authorisation to launch a global technology fund in order to benefit from the attractive prospects for the sector
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05 August 2010 Jeremy Hall, manager of the Ignis International Cartesian UK Enhanced Alpha fund, says that with market volatility remaining high, risk appetite falling and companies now being ‘appropriately’ punished for profit warnings, stock selection has rarely been so important
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02 August 2010 Ignis UK Focus Fund manager Ralph Brook-Fox is selectively adding value stocks to his growth portfolio on his view that, dotcom boom aside, growth companies now look expensive relative to history.
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29 July 2010 Ignis Asset Management is pleased to announce the launch of the Ignis UK Enhanced Income Fund. The fund, which soft launched on 27 July 2010, employs a covered call strategy to generate additional income from stocks listed in the UK
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29 July 2010 Ian Ormiston, manager of the Ignis European Growth Fund and Ignis Smaller Companies Fund, reacts to the results of the Friday’s stress test on European Banks. He believes whilst the test itself lacked much credibility, it could mark the beginning of a period in which the strong banks get stronger, at the expense of the weak.
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28 July 2010 With the UK economic outlook set to remain uncertain, Ralph Brook-Fox, manager of the Ignis UK Focus fund - which has returned first quartile performance over 1, 3 and 5 years* - suggests five mid-cap stocks he believes can deliver strong secular growth over the coming months and years.
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12 July 2010 Almost 80% of IFAs believe emerging markets will be the best performing asset class over the coming months, with US equities and commodities also tipped to deliver attractive returns, according to research from Ignis Asset Management.
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09 June 2010 If countries were companies, who would represent Continental Europe at an investment World Cup? Ignis Asset Management suggests a team capable of lifting the trophy in South Africa.
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08 June 2010 The weakening euro is a major boon for the majority of Europe’s top companies, says Barry Norris, manager of the £330m Ignis Argonaut European Alpha Fund.
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03 June 2010 Ignis has announced the winners of the 2010 Ignis Investment Journalism Awards – held last night in the famous pavilion at Lord’s Cricket Ground.
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17 May 2010 Castle Hill Asset Management is pleased to announce that Tom O’Shea has joined as a Partner of the firm
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10 May 2010 European equities boutique, Argonaut Capital, is delighted to announce that the Ignis Argonaut European Enhanced Income Fund is now open for investment
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21 April 2010 The stock market is wrong to believe the UK economy is enjoying a ‘normal’ recovery, says David Stevenson, lead manager of the Ignis Cartesian UK Opportunities Fund.
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12 April 2010 Investors’ current fixation with growth stocks is causing them to overlook attractive value opportunities in the UK and Europe, says James Smith, manager of the Ignis Global Growth Fund
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06 April 2010 Ignis Corporate Bond Fund manager Chris Bowie has removed the portfolio’s risk overweight in response to heightened fears over a hung parliament and the ongoing uncertainty in the domestic and global economy.
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26 March 2010 The UK Commercial Property Trust Limited (the Trust), the UK’s largest UK Commercial Property Investment Trust, is pleased to announce the purchase of Junction 27 Retail Park, Leeds from Henderson Global Investors for £56.63 million.
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25 March 2010 The negativity surrounding the UK smaller companies sector is significantly overdone, says David Clark, manager of the Ignis UK Smaller Companies Fund
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15 March 2010 Trailblazing European equities boutique, Argonaut Capital, is delighted to announce the launch of the Ignis Argonaut European Enhanced Income Fund.
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10 March 2010 Financials the most overlooked sector in Europe, says Ignis Asset Management
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11 February 2010 The UK Commercial Property Trust Limited (the Trust), the UK’s largest UK Commercial Property Investment Trust, is pleased to announce that the recent placing and offer of 195 million ordinary shares at an issue price of 77.1 pence per share has been fully subscribed, raising gross proceeds of approximately £150 million for new acquisitions
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08 February 2010 Three years since its formation, the Ignis European team remains focused on delivering outperformance for investors and adding to assets under management
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03 February 2010 Creation of a specialist credit manager with more than $2.0 billion of gross AUM
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01 February 2010 Ignis Asset Management is delighted to announce the appointment of Johan Rydqvist, who will be joining the Ignis European sales team to cover the Nordic region in early February
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01 February 2010 Ignis Asset Management is delighted to announce the appointment of Billie Croan to the position of Director, Liquidity Sales
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18 January 2010 Ignis Asset Management is delighted to announce the appointment of Tim Roberts as Chief Operating Officer
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11 January 2010 Ignis Asset Management is delighted to announce the appointment of Chris Fellingham as Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income