BNP Paribas Asset Management (‘BNPP AM') announces the launch at the end of 2017 of two private debt strategies, European Infra Debt and European Real Estate Debt. The launches are BNPP AM's first within infrastructure debt and commercial real estate debt.

We have been expecting a pick-up in market volatility as part of our global outlook for 2018. The current volatility episode should, however, be temporary as market participants take note of the gradual normalisation of inflation and monetary policy.

Arnout van Rijn and Victoria Mio attribute the success of their flagship equity strategies to opening an office in Hong Kong in 2008, enabling local access to the companies in which they invest. They previously managed the strategies as part of the emerging market equities team in Rotterdam.

BlackRock has launched a high yield fixed maturity bond fund, in response to investor demand for alternative sources of return and ways to build income-focused, diversified and efficient bond portfolios.

$8.8bn traded across the iShares EMEA range, exchange volumes were equivalent to 340% of the average daily volume. By comparison, $5bn traded on June 24th the day after the Brexit vote.