Major Chinese cities are trapped in a property bubble after sales transactions soared 60% over the past 18 months, says Gartmore's Charlie Awdry.

Frontier Investment Management is launching a cautious vehicle to add to its range of multi-asset funds, skewed towards alternative assets.

Dalton Strategic Partnership has introduced a sterling hedged share class to the Melchior Japan Advantage fund on an uncertain outlook for the yen.

BP reported an annual loss of $4.9bn (£3.1bn) in 2010, the first time the oil giant failed to post full-year profits since 1992.

Blacksquare Capital's chief executive Christopher Peel gives his outlook for gilts and bonds this year.

Schroders' Global Property Income Maximiser will launch on 17 February with a heavy overweight to the North American real estate sector, which the manager expects to benefit from regulation.

Tony Nutt's Jupiter Income fund, along with offerings from Gartmore and SWIP, are among those blacklisted for underperformance in Principal Investment Management's latest income study.

PIMCO's Guillermo Osses has joined HSBC Global Asset Management as head of emerging markets debt portfolio management.

High profile investment trust managers including Fidelity's Anthony Bolton and Jupiter's Alex Darwall are injecting huge amounts of personal capital into their own vehicles, according to research by broker Collins Stewart.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management has renamed and slashed the charges on its UK Active 350 fund as the group looks to offer investors an active alternative to passive index trackers.