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21 May 2013
The vast majority of UK smaller companies funds have failed to produce significant alpha for investors over the past year, with the average fund’s return lagging one benchmark index by ten percentage points.
21 May 2013
Close Brothers has suspended redemptions on Deryck Noble-Nesbitt’s Special Situations fund ahead of an expected wind-up of the portfolio in August this year.
21 May 2013
Franklin Templeton's Ben Russon is to become lead manager of its £108m UK Select Growth fund next month as he begins to alter the portfolio following his move from Newton.
21 May 2013
Marks & Spencer has reported a heavy fall in profits over the year to 30 March, despite rising sales across the group as a whole.
20 May 2013
This year so far has been an interesting and rather unique period for UK income investors. Happily, the IMA equity income sector has outperformed the FTSE All-Share. What is unusual is that it has done so in a strongly rising market, when historically income strategies as a group have tended to lag.
20 May 2013
Cazenove Capital's director of investment funds Robin Minter-Kemp is expected to exit Schroders after the two groups combine later this year, Investment Week understands.
20 May 2013
John Clarke, chief investment officer at GHC Capital Markets, argues that more QE, not less, is the answer to the UK’s economic problems.
20 May 2013
Martin Gilbert, the chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management, has announced he is to resign from his role as chairman of beleaguered transport business FirstGroup, on the day the group also announced it is undertaking a rights issue.
17 May 2013
BP has become the victim of a “shakedown” by US regulators and media as it attempts to resolve claims arising from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to M&G’s Tom Dobell.
17 May 2013
IMA chief executive Daniel Godfrey says there is "no reason" why fund groups should not be able to agree a methodology for displaying costs more transparently by the end of 2013.
16 May 2013
UK North Sea oil production represents a key opportunity for UK equity managers as capex increases and production ramps up, according to AXA Framlington’s Nigel Thomas.
15 May 2013
Hargreaves Lansdown shares closed above the £10 mark for the first time ever yesterday as investors continue to back the platform to excel in a post-RDR environment.
14 May 2013
Rathbones has seen its funds under management swell to more than £20bn, helped by its recent acquisition in the private client space.
14 May 2013
Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) has posted a £224m net inflow into its funds in the first quarter, reversing an outflow of nearly £500m in the same period the previous year.
13 May 2013
We remain disenchanted with the outlook for the UK domestic economy and see sustained low economic growth, low wage growth, persistent inflation (most of it imported) and negative real wage growth.
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