UK

River & Mercantile Asset Management is soft closing Philip Rodrigs' UK Equity Smaller Companies fund following strong inflows during the past year.

UK equity income managers have been utilising more of their overseas investment budgets as they struggle to find suitable opportunities in the UK.

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Investors should be turning their attention to small-cap stocks, instead of their larger counterparts, to play the export-led recovery in Europe, according to S.W. Mitchell Capital's Jamie Carter.

Troy Trojan Income manager Francis Brooke has been reducing his fund's position in utilities to protect against the threat of rising bond yields.

"Bond tourists" investing in dividend-paying stocks are causing concern for UK equity income managers, who predict increased volatility as debt starts to sell off.

Neil Woodford has made a new investment in AJ Bell via a fundraising round which ensures the Invesco Perpetual-backed platform will remain a private company.

Jupiter has promoted James Zimmerman to lead manager of its £60m UK Smaller Companies portfolio as Richard Curling steps back.

Evenlode Income manager Hugh Yarrow identifies ten stocks he expects to product long-term sustainable dividend growth.

M&G is bringing its top quartile Japan funds in-house, changing manager on its Smaller Companies portfolio, and adding a co-manager to its European Smaller Companies fund.