The latest news in investment offerings, financial products and other services relevant to wealth advisors and their clients.

Quilter
UK wealth manager Quilter has launched the Quilter Investors Global Government Bond fund, appointing PIMCO to manage the new mandate. Quilter’s WealthSelect Managed Portfolio Service has introduced the new fund into its managed portfolios as part of a recent ad hoc rebalance. The new holding is being partly funded by a reduction in the passively managed government bond holding and, as such, will increase the overall exposure to actively managed global government bonds in the portfolios, which the team deemed prudent given the heightened levels of uncertainty.

The mandate will be managed by Andrew Balls alongside a team of senior portfolio managers and analysts. The strategy benefits from global expertise, strong tenure, and access to PIMCO’s macro and fixed income research platform.

Elsewhere in the rebalance, following a rally in equity markets during April and early May, portfolio managers, Stuart Clark, Helen Bradshaw and Bethan Dixon, decided to take profits from the equity allocation, and within equity topped up laggard positions such as its precious metals allocation.

“Following the recent rally in equity markets, we felt it was sensible to take some profit and rebalance the portfolios by increasing our exposure to actively managed fixed income,” Clark said. “Concurrently, the launch of the Quilter Investors Global Government Bond fund comes at a good time and our already strong partnership with PIMCO has strengthened the fixed income line up within WealthSelect.”

State Street IM, Ninety One
State Street Investment Management, the asset management arm of New York-listed State Street Corporation and Ninety One, a global investment manager, are entering into a partnership, paving the way for a suite of active co-branded exchange-traded funds (ETF).

Through this partnership, the firms will collaborate to introduce a suite of new active ETF products, providing investors across Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region, with access to asset classes across developed and emerging markets. The initial launches will be focused on actively-managed global equities and emerging markets UCITS ETFs.

Demand for ETFs continues to grow globally, including within the EMEA region, as investors seek to diversify their portfolios amid geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty, while benefitting from the flexibility, transparency, speed and cost-effectiveness of the ETF wrapper.

“Our goal is to drive innovation within the industry, deploying our extensive expertise and capabilities to identify and create solutions for investors,” Yie-Hsin Hung, chief executive officer of State Street Investment Management, said. “This exciting evolution in State Street’s longstanding partnership with Ninety One has led to the creation of several deeply compelling investment opportunities across emerging and developed markets through a new suite of actively-managed ETF products.Through this partnership, both firms will work in tandem to ensure that investors can benefit from the deeply compelling investment opportunities at play across both emerging and developed markets around the world.”

Investors are increasingly seeking to diversify beyond US equities, which have dominated global portfolios, driving renewed interest in international and emerging market opportunities, the firm said in a statement. Recent data from State Street highlights that flows into EMEA-domiciled active ETF products have remained strong, with 11.6 per cent growth in assets under management within this cohort of funds to date in 2026 and growth in global equity and emerging market equity funds.

“In an uncertain world, the ability to invest globally with high conviction matters more than ever,” Hendrik du Toit, founder and chief executive at Ninety One, said. “This partnership brings together Ninety One’s active investment capabilities with State Street IM’s global reach and ETF expertise, creating a powerful platform to deliver solutions for clients worldwide.”

A number of firms have been launching ETFs recently, for instance US-headquartered investment managers Invesco and Franklin Templeton. They have also been diversifying beyond US equities, notably into Asia and emerging markets. See more here, here, here and here.

Jupiter Asset Management, Allfunds
Jupiter Asset Management has launched its first locally-domiciled feeder fund in the United Arab Emirates, the AME Jupiter Dynamic Bond Feeder Fund, in partnership with Allfunds (Middle East), a Dubai-based management company and distribution platform.

The partnership combines Allfunds’ expertise of local regulatory requirements, and its WealthTech distribution platform, with Jupiter’s high conviction, active management approach, the firm said in a statement. The Jupiter Dynamic Bond Fund and the AME Jupiter Dynamic Bond Feeder Fund provide investors with a globally diversified exposure to fixed income markets, with a focus on high income with the prospect of capital growth.

The Middle East remains an important market for Jupiter; the company recently expanded its London-based client coverage team, with the addition of Nondini Chakrabarti as a client director. Chakrabarti will focus on wealth channels across the Middle East and Africa, reporting to Richard Hooper, head of Middle East, Africa and Australia in Jupiter’s global institutional team.

“The launch supports our ability to offer access to our differentiated and active management capabilities through convenient and appropriate vehicles for our distribution partners in the region,” Hopper said. “It’s a real pleasure to also welcome Nondini to Jupiter; she brings a great depth of market experience, investor insights and drive.”

Lansdowne Partners
Lansdowne Partners, a London-based global investment management firm with over $11 billion in AuM, has launched a venture capital fund focused on backing high potential UK companies emerging from the country’s university research base and startup ecosystem. The fund, which announced a first close of $150 million and will hold a second and final close in December, has indicated interest in excess of the fund cap of $200 million. The fund is anchored by British Business Bank, Aviva Investors, and Lloyds Banking Group, with additional backing from Lansdowne investors and internal partners’ capital.

With this strong institutional support, the fund aims to bridge the gap between early-stage innovation and global commercial success.

This strategy aims to use the UK’s strength in innovation, rooted in its research universities and regional centres of expertise, to back globally competitive capabilities that are increasingly relevant to the industries of the future, including healthcare data, quantum computing, natural capital, advanced materials, semiconductors, and defence technology, as well as complimentary sectors where secure supply chains and domestic capability are becoming increasingly important.