Fund Sizes Increase As Investor Risk Appetite Returns

Investment strategies for listed funds have widened in scope in the past 12 to 18 months, according to Tom Attenborough, Head of Large Caps, Primary Markets at the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

Mr Attenborough, who was speaking as part of a panel of experts at the Guernsey Funds Forum 2015 in London earlier this month, said he agreed with the event's keynote speaker Guy Hands, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Terra Firma Capital Partners Limited, that investors were once again far more willing to take risk. Mr Attenborough said it had resulted in a diverse issuance calendar with trends emerging in the areas of alternative energy, leasing, microcap equities, debt-collective strategies and non-bank lending.