The fallout in fixed income markets following the departure of Bill Gross from “mega manager” PIMCO has added a new dimension to the challenges facing fixed income investors. The bond market's concerns of the last few weeks are noteworthy, and mostly justified, but should also be viewed as an opportunity to reflect on portfolio strategy, liquidity risk and firm risk.

Source, an investment firm and one of the market-leading European providers of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), and Ashmore, a specialist, active investment manager with more than 20 years' experience in Emerging Markets, have partnered to launch the first funds in Europe that offer Ashmore's expertise within an efficient, actively managed ETF structure.

The Board of Directors of Nomura Partners Funds, Inc., announced that Nomura Partners Funds, Inc. shareholders approved a charter amendment that will permit the tax-free merger of The Japan Fund into the Matthews Japan Fund.

Amundi is targeting its ETF & Indexing expertise as one of the core axes of its development strategy, with the aim of reaching AuM of $100bn (€75bn) in the next three years.

Investors representing over two trillion dollars of assets under management as of September 23, issued an Investor Statement on Green Bonds and Climate Bonds, committing to grow a global market in the financing of climate change solutions. At the same a group of 13 development banks, investors and issuers committed themselves to further developing the Green Bonds market.