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EQUITIES NEWS

Woodford ditches Tesco as Buffett buys

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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Revealed: The least volatile US stocks of the past decade

Coping with market volatility has become a pressing need for US equity managers since the start of the financial crisis, but which companies have proved themselves capable of riding out the storm?

Investment Week | 09 Feb 2012

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Prusik's Manners buys into Vietnam at 'Asian crisis-style valuations'

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

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SLI and Schroders' Buxton to vote against Glencore-Xstrata deal

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

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AXA's Peirson: Forget the euro crisis - equities will rise in 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

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UK equity manager Harrington leaves Jupiter

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

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Schroders' Laud warns on global yield crisis

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

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SIG hands best ideas mandates to Artemis’ Steer

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

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Threadneedle launches European AR fund for Doyle

Threadneedle has launched a Luxembourg-domiciled European Absolute Alpha fund for pan-European equity manager Paul Doyle.

Investment Week | 18 Jan 2012

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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

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Horta-Osorio to return as Lloyds CEO in January

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

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Woodford: How my 10 top picks have fared this year

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

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Kames appoints Shaw as co-manager on UK Equity fund

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

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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

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Schroders to launch US Alpha Plus fund next month

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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View from the Bridge: Investment biker

Being a long time motorbiker, I am very conscious of the ever present threat that comes from being unaware of what is in front of you.

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Jupiter Unit Trust Managers employs the most FE Alpha Managers with 12 on the newly revealed list for 2012.

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Gosling's Grouse: Baying for blood

When a phlebotomist sticks a needle in a vein you pay attention. He or she has you just where they want you.

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FDR, Reagan, Clinton or Obama: When were markets strongest?

Three years into Barack Obama's term as US president, how do equity market returns under this administration compare with those seen under previous leaders?

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