Jupiter Fund Management chief executive Maarten Slendebroek said Wednesday he is “optimistic” that new agreements with platform partners will lead to an uptick in international business in the second half of 2014.

Slendebroek - who was reporting his first set of interim results since he was appointed chief executive in March - said international partnership deals with around 20 global partners will attract new fixed income cash at a time when some firms are capping bond funds to new inflows.