Schroders

Schroders has entered into a strategic relationship with Hartford Funds, a leading US based asset management company that offers a broad range of actively managed strategies to US financial advisors and their clients.

Schroders has reached an agreement with Brookfield Investment Management Inc. to acquire its securitised products investment management team with more than $4 billion in assets under management.

According to Keith Wade, Economist at Schroders, at first glance this would seem to be a soft report; however, other elements were more robust. For example, average hourly earnings growth ticked up to 2.5% year-on-year and the average work week increased by 0.4% month-on-month. The latter is a useful indicator of GDP growth...

According to Nathan Gibbs, Japanese Equities portfolio manager at Schroders, regardless of the actual level of interest rates or details of policy, the main issue around today’s Bank of Japan decision is one of inconsistency.

According to Keith Wade, Economist and Head of strategy at Schroders, Mario Draghi succeeded in surprising markets with his latest salvo, but needs the support of governments and fiscal policy to win this fight.