Equities

Multi-asset specialist David Jane is prioritising superior returns over low fees with Darwin Investment Managers, set to launch in the summer

The European Commission may be about to kill two very big birds with one stone. The ‘stone' it is casting from Brussels is the snappily named Regulation on Short Selling and Certain Aspects of Credit Default Swaps.

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Billionaire investor George Soros has urged Western nations to support revolutions in the Middle East to gain allegiance with new-found democracies.

ON EUROPE

Schroders is this month launching the UK Core fund, the first in a suite of low cost actively-managed products, for Richard Buxton's UK equity team.

Threadneedle has closed its European Smaller Companies Crescendo hedge fund and launched a new absolute return portfolio focused on the region.

Carl Stick has totally sold out of bank holdings in his £483m Rathbone Income fund, looking instead to stocks in the insurance and retail sectors.

Emerging markets are facing an "unpleasant cocktail" of macroeconomic headwinds, but these are cyclical pressures that represent a buying opportunity, says Jupiter's Kathryn Langridge.

Eurozone countries could get a far greater say in each others' economic policies, according to draft documents the BBC has reportedly seen.