Liontrust has rebranded the three funds it brought from Walker Crips, run by Steve Bailey and Jan Luthman.

Ardevora's Jeremy Lang has rotated his US exposure - which makes up over half of the Global Equity fund long book - out of consumer stocks and into a heavy technology overweight.

Investec Asset Management is the latest group to launch a range of clean share classes ahead of the year-end RDR deadline.

Four major fund houses have joined forces with technology provider IFDS to white-label enhanced online propositions for their existing direct customers ahead of RDR.

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Neil Woodford's heavy overweight pharmaceutical position on the Invesco Perpetual Income fund dragged the portfolio into the bottom quartile during the first three months of the year.

Kames Capital's David Roberts has added "disaster insurance" to the £510m Strategic Bond fund on doubts the markets will be able to function smoothly over the summer.

Renowned hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry is urging investors to short US treasuries should yields sink further from their current lows, as it would be a "lifetime buying opportunity for risk assets".

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