Witan Investment Trust has appointed two new managers for its global equity portfolios.

Managers have been buying in to aerospace companies as firms in the sector begin to see large orders coming from the Middle East.

Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Global Insight, has tipped Chancellor George Osborne to up the UK's GDP growth outlook and reveal a reduction in the deficit next week.

Miton's Gervias Williams has been appointed co-manager of Bill Mott's PSigma Income fund as part of a reshuffle which sees Neil Cumming exit the group.

Premier's property fund manager Alex Ross believes London's ‘tech belt' is the only area left in the capital where investors can find value via commercial property.

Potential interest rate rise in 2014 could prompt flight from fixed income into commercial property.

Strategists and multi-managers are moving back into China following the latest wave of economic reforms detailed in its Third Plenum, with some labelling the package of measures as the ‘catalyst' for stock market returns.

Wealth managers continue to hold UK small-cap funds instead of taking profits and rotating into the larger end of the market, predicting a rise in M&A activity will boost the sector.

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