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UK equity manager Harrington leaves Jupiter

Investment Week | 31 Jan 2012

Patrick Harrington, manager of Jupiter’s £91m Undervalued Assets fund and its £100m Fund of Investment Trusts, has left the company.

Is this the best stock to back in 2012?

Burberry has been named the best stock to buy in 2012 by Kames Capital's head of UK equities, Stephen Adams.

Investment Week | 27 Jan 2012

Profit warnings jump 70% in Q4 for UK companies

Warnings on profits issued by UK firms saw the biggest leap in a decade in Q4 2011, driven by difficulties in the retail sector, according to Ernst & Young.

Investment Week | 23 Jan 2012

Investors rebuke Tesco exec for ‘bizarre’ share sale

Tesco CEO Phil Clarke should decline his bonus to atone for approving a senior executive’s share sale a week prior to its major profit warning, according to a leading investor in the company.

Investment Week | 17 Jan 2012

Blog: Value will be back as fear retains hold

River & Mercantile's head of UK equities, Hugh Sergeant, explains why the pricing of fear means value investing will return to favour next year.

Investment Week | 20 Dec 2011

The FTSE’s best and worst stocks in 2011

UK equity managers who were overweight defensives at the start of the year – or earlier – had to be patient at first, but were rewarded at the start of July when cyclicals fell firmly out of favour.

Investment Week | 19 Dec 2011

Schroders' Buxton apologises after 'disappointing' year

Schroders' star stockpicker Richard Buxton has apologised to investors in a conference call after his fund plunged down the rankings this year.

Investment Week | 14 Dec 2011

AXA's Thomas: UK equities are cheap, but will stay cheap

Nigel Thomas, manager of the £2.8bn AXA Framlington UK Select Opportunities fund, has said UK equities are cheap, but have little scope to rise in the current environment.

Investment Week | 02 Dec 2011

Equity funds see highest monthly outflow since credit crunch - IMA

Last month equity funds in the IMA sectors saw their largest monthly outflow since October 2008, the peak of the financial crisis.

Investment Week | 29 Nov 2011

Buxton: Why UK banks can work through crisis

Schroders’ Richard Buxton has defended his banking positions, saying troubled UK lenders could be returning 15% on equity by 2015.

Investment Week | 28 Nov 2011

Conjecture: UK Equities

In the latest Conjecture debate, our panelists from FOUR Capital Partners and Unicorn Asset Management discussed UK Equities.

Investment Week | 25 Nov 2011 | screening image

Is it time to put risk back on the table?

James Lowen, manager of the JOHCM UK Equity Income fund, explains why now is the right time to buy equities.

Investment Week | 18 Nov 2011

Train: Why new Kindle tablet is more important than euro crisis

Nick Train, manager of the £333m Lindsell Train UK Equity fund, has said the most important development for equity markets in Q3 had nothing to do with Greece or the eurozone.

Investment Week | 10 Nov 2011

FTSE launches consultation on free float rules

The FTSE Group has launched a consultation on whether it should raise its minimum free float requirement from 15% to 25%.

Investment Week | 01 Nov 2011

BlackRock to launch retail version of UK Focus fund

BlackRock is bringing a version of its concentrated UK Focus fund, managed by Luke Chappell and Imran Sattar, to the retail market.

Investment Week | 20 Oct 2011

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