Equities

Gemini Investments is holding a four date roadshow around the UK next month showcasing five of its boutique investment partners, with events chaired by Investment Week's editorial director Lawrence Gosling.

Slight changes in performance is all that separates the leaders and the laggards in diminutive sector.

China's tightened monetary policy appears to be having the desired effect on inflation as figures for last month showed CPI dipped to 6.1% in September.

Zimbabwean investment company Masawara, which is backed by Neil Woodford in the £18.6bn Invesco Perpetual income funds, has raised $50m towards its capital target since IPO last year.

Barings' head of Asian equities Colin Ng is rotating his portfolio away from industrials and petro-chemical stocks that took a hit in the summer sell-off, and has been adding to banks.

RBS chief executive Stephen Hester has warned if the UK economic recovery is weaker than expected, the bank's results will suffer, a week on from renewed bailout fears for RBS.

JO Hambro Capital Management's new Asian fund manager has said high profile fund managers caught out by accountancy fraud by some of China's smaller companies were not to blame as the problems can be so difficult to spot.

Peter Mandelson, the Labour party peer and former European Commissioner, has warned Europe is facing not one but four crises which policymakers must tackle.

PIMCO chief executive Bill Gross has increased exposure to mortgage-backed securities (MBS), widely blamed for the collapse of the US financial system in 2008 and the cause of the credit crunch, on his $242bn Total Return fund.

The head of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is to be quizzed by MPs this afternoon over claims he allowed Goldman Sachs to escape £10m in interest payments on an offshore tax avoidance scheme.