A rare market shakeout in which all major asset classes fell over the past six months is not the ‘new normal', says Lukas Daalder, Chief Investment Officer for Robeco Investment Solutions.

The US Federal Reserve maintained a status quo on its interest rates at its September meeting, thereby extending a period of zero interest rates that has lasted for virtually seven years already. This decision, which ought to have reassured investors, was on the contrary greeted with further significant equity market falls.

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (Deutsche AWM) has launched an ETF that provides exposure to the US dollar-denominated liquid corporate bond market.db x-trackers Barclays USD Corporate Bond UCITS ETF (DR) tracks the Barclays USD Liquid Investment Grade Corporate Index.

Investors are expressing growing skepticism that the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) will raise rates this year amid fragility in the global economy and earnings, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for October.

The Lancashire County Pension Fund (LCPF) and London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) today announced that the former Chairman of the Pensions Regulator, Michael O'Higgins, will chair their £10bn partnership.