Equities

Newly-listed Royal Mail has entered the FTSE 100 index of the UK's largest companies following a huge move in its share price post-IPO.

Nick Ford, manager of the Miton US Opportunities fund, has selected his top five quality US equities poised to benefit from the strong recovery in the world's largest economy and an improving environment for consumer and business spending.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management's global market strategist Kerry Craig outlines his key predictions for core asset classes, markets, and economies as we move in to 2014.

As 2013 draws to a close, we look back over the major news stories in an eventful year.

Prusik Investment Management co-founder Heather Manners has outlined three forward-looking Asian themes she expects to drive returns for her portfolio in 2014 and beyond.

US markets soared to new all-time highs on Wednesday as the Federal Reserve made a surprise early move to gradually scale back quantitative easing.

Legg Mason's chief executive Bill Miller is setting up a mutual fund under his own name, to be run together with his son as assistant fund manager.

Old Mutual Global Investors has moved Simon Murphy's £40m UK Opportunities fund to the IMA Targeted Absolute Return sector after merging its offshore and onshore versions.

Investec Asset Management's John Stopford, manager of the Diversified Growth fund, outlines his five themes for investing for income in 2014, including a cheap dollar, inflation disappointment, and opportunities in EMD.

A year hyped as the start of a great rotation from bonds into equities actually saw more of a trickle out of fixed income, but it was not plain sailing for bond funds.