EQUITIES NEWS
Investment Week | 10 Feb 2012
Invesco Perpetual's Neil Woodford has revealed he sold out of his Tesco holding after the firm's profit warning last month, just as veteran investor Warren Buffett was snapping up the stock.
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Investment Week | 09 Feb 2012
Prusik IM founder Heather Manners has bought into Vietnam for the first time in her funds’ history in the view stocks are trading on Asian crisis-level valuations and could double from here.
Investment Week | 07 Feb 2012
MORE EQUITIES NEWS
Xstrata’s fourth largest shareholder, Standard Life Investments, said it will vote against the recommended merger between the miner and Glencore because the deal “clearly undervalues” the miner.
Investment Week | 07 Feb 2012
Equities are likely to post gains in 2012 whatever the outcome of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, according to Richard Peirson, manager of the £347m AXA Framlington Managed Balanced fund.
Investment Week | 02 Feb 2012
Patrick Harrington, manager of Jupiter’s £91m Undervalued Assets fund and its £100m Fund of Investment Trusts, has left the company.
Investment Week | 31 Jan 2012
Schroders’ Sonja Laud has warned investors are facing a global yield crisis, and she expects cash to flow out of government bonds and into equities in the hunt for dividends.
Investment Week | 24 Jan 2012
Skandia Investment Group (SIG) has awarded mandates on its UK Best Ideas and Global Best Ideas funds to Artemis' Global Growth manager Tim Steer.
Investment Week | 20 Jan 2012
Threadneedle has launched a Luxembourg-domiciled European Absolute Alpha fund for pan-European equity manager Paul Doyle.
Investment Week | 18 Jan 2012
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
Lloyds Banking Group CEO António Horta-Osório is to return as group chief executive on 9 January 2012 after a period of medical leave.
Investment Week | 14 Dec 2011
Invesco Perpetual’s head of investment Neil Woodford said his favoured defensive blue chip names have recently delivered some confident trading updates, despite tough macroeconomic conditions.
Investment Week | 14 Dec 2011
Kames Capital is set to appoint Peter Shaw as co-manager of the £361m UK Equity fund on 1 January.
Investment Week | 06 Dec 2011
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
Schroders is launching an onshore US Equity Alpha fund for head of US large cap equities Joanna Shatney on 14 December.
Investment Week | 28 Nov 2011
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