Putnam Investments - A specialist approach

With $4 billion in assets under management, a consistent history of outperformance of its benchmark - 2007 notwithstanding - and £500 million of inflows in Europe already this year, Putnam's fixed-income strategy provides some rare good cheer in these troubled times. The firm says a further $3.7 billion is due to be added to the total in the Core Global and Global Alpha strategies. Across the firm as a whole and not just in the dedicated fixed-income strategy, there are $69 billion of fixed