Liontrust is proposing to merge the Macro UK High Alpha fund into its Macro UK Growth fund due to the "sub-optimal" size of the high alpha vehicle.

The FTSE 100 will rise over 70% and hit the 10,000 mark in the next decade, Invesco Perpetual's Martin Walker has predicted.

Neptune's Felix Wintle has positioned the £400m US Opportunities fund to play the housing recovery theme as he predicts the sector is 10% undervalued when you consider the huge pent up demand about to hit housing starts.

James Du Boulay, head of fund distribution at JO Hambro Investment Management, has left the firm.

Invesco Perpetual's Simon Laing and Simon Clinch have reshaped the £353m US Equity portfolio, halving the number of holdings and cutting consumer staples in favour of healthcare.

Nick Hamilton, head of global equity products at Invesco Perpetual, is hoping to boost the "mediocre" performance of the group's £1bn Global Equity fund by positioning less defensively and adding to US exposure.

Evidence of investors moving back into European equities has increased as two industry reports reveal it has overtaken emerging markets in a preferred list of asset classes.

RBS has suspended a trader for trying to rig the Singapore dollar swap offer rate, according to reports, in the latest case of interest rate benchmark manipulation.

Kames Capital's Stephen Snowden has urged investors not to ditch corporate bonds over fears they will be harmed by inflationary pressures brought about by global central banks printing money.

Kames Capital's Euan McNeil and Stephen Snowden have identified three key catalysts that would cause the managers to move risk off in their £419m Investment Grade Bond fund before the end of the year.