Russian President Vladimir Putin's intervention to ease gas prices went some way to calm investor fears last week, writes Philippa Aylmer.

But with rising prices and the world economy constrained by shortages of labour and components, the threat of stagflation is becoming a major theme amongst investment managers. 

AIM companies continue to contribute to economy, and have fared better during the pandemic than the FTSE 100, writes AIM, which celebrates the eighth birthday of AIM companies being able to be in an ISA.

Spectrum Markets, a pan-European trading venue for securitised derivatives, has now executed more than two million trades, representing a total volume of 585 million securitised derivatives traded. 

Volume traded in November on Spectrum, a new pan-European trading platform for retail investors in structured products, increased by over 100 per cent compared to October, the first full month of trading activity.

Europe’s leading ETF providers, including Invesco, iShares, SPDR, DWS and Lyxor, have joined forces to provide investors with a ‘consolidated tape’ of aggregate ETF trading data in one place for the first time.

Euronext has reported an increase in revenue to EUR150.9 million (+17.2 per cent), and an increase in listing revenue of EUR27.8 million (+37.6 per cent) for Q3 2018, driven, it says, by the consolidation of Euronext Dublin and incremental contribution from Corporate services.

Tradeweb’s Monthly Activity Report, which captures trading activity in fixed income, derivatives and ETF markets on the platform, reveals average daily notional volume of USD584.4 billion for the month of October 2018, which is up 38.8 per cent on a year-over-year basis, despite a slowdown from the record highs seen in September 2018.

GAM Investments has announced that all subscriptions and redemptions in its CHF7.3 billion unconstrained/absolute return bond funds (ARBF) have been suspended as of 31 July 2018, following redemption requests of over 10 per cent since the suspension of investment director Tim Haywood (pictured).

Investment platform AJ Bell has appointed Numis Securities Limited to explore an Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.

LandlordInvest.com, a fully FCA authorised peer-to-peer lending platform and an HM Revenue & Customs approved ISA manager, has completed more than GBP1,000,000 in sales on its secondary market.