ML Capital Asset Management has released its quarterly report on the alternatives sector, revealing a spike in interest in global emerging markets and Latin America, as well as a doubling of demand for European long/short products.

F&C Asset Management has reported a drop in AUM between the second and third quarters as it continues to see outflows from its wholesales arm and Thames River.

The European Parliament has voted against a ban on commission payments in Europe in a move placing it at odds with the FSA's stance under the incoming Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

The US government has postponed the start date of incoming tax regime FATCA to give businesses more time to comply with the rules.

MAM Funds is planning a share issue for Gervais Williams' Diverse Income trust, through which it hopes to raise £20m of new assets.

Schroders' Nick Kirrage, co-manager of the £1.1bn Income fund, looks beyond the headlines in troubled Europe and finds some surprises in the region's hard numbers.

Schroders has begun marketing its soft-closed European Alpha Plus fund, managed by Leon Howard-Spink (pictured), as client demand for European equities begins to pick up.

MAM Funds' Gervais Williams has revealed the key stocks driving performance on his Acuim UK Multi Cap Income fund, which reached its one-year anniversary this month.

Mirabaud Asset Management's Daniel Tubbs joined the firm from BlackRock earlier this year, where he was co-head of emerging markets.

A positive start to the third quarter earnings season has lifted equity prices higher on the major US and European markets.