Performance data for the IMA's newly combined UK Equity Income sector shows over the long term many of the funds that were put into the UK Equity Income & Growth sector have managed to outperform the peer group.

THE BIG QUESTION

The manager of the Bankers investment trust has reduced the portfolio's fixed income holdings in the view the outlook for equity returns is superior.

Trustnet has launched Fundswire, an automated funds news service for advisers and their clients covering unit trusts, Oeics and investment trusts.

INDEPENDENCE DAY EQUITIES

THE BIG QUESTION

Before the crunch, all that many investors wanted was superior returns.

The FTSE 100 index opened slightly up this morning, in a fragile recovery from yesterday's mammoth losses which saw it hurtle south of the 5,000 mark.

The Office for National Statistics will postpone its next release of data on economic growth, in an highly unusual move for the official statistician.

The amount raised by companies from equity capital markets during the first half of the year was the lowest in five years.