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Small-cap boutique Montanaro is offering seed investors the opportunity to allocate to its Equity Income fund at a zero management fee until it reaches £100m in size.

Positions in European consumer staples have outperformed in run up to the European Central Bank's quantitative easing programme, as investors look to mimic the highs of US and UK equity markets, according to Polar Capital's Nick Davis.

SWMC Small Cap European fund manager Jamie Carter has taken his gross market exposure to a record high in the view smaller companies are being overlooked by investors in the "mad scramble" to buy European equities.

Standard Life Investments' Global Equity Income fund manager Kevin Troup tells Laura Dew why his Hong Kong listed holdings are slow-burners and explains his decision to buy a Nokia bond, rather than its equity.

Hannah Smith takes a closer look at recent launches in the micro-cap space, and how wealth managers are using these strategies to diversify their portfolios.

Lloyds Banking Group is finally beginning to look attractive again for income managers as it restarts dividend payments for the first time since the crisis.

Hugh Yarrow (pictured) and Ben Peters, managers of the Evenlode Income fund, have revealed the top five stocks which have helped drive the success of their top-performing portfolio.

Invesco Perpetual's £600m Income & Growth fund is to move out of the Investment Association's UK Equity Income sector this Friday (27 February) after failing to meet the trade body's yield requirements.

Hermes Investment Management's Mark Sherlock has said the lag in US capital expenditure growth is still holding back stocks despite the strong equity market returns seen in recent years.

JO Hambro Capital Management's Clive Beagles has blamed an underweight in defensive stocks for the underperformance of the £2.7bn UK Equity Income fund last year but said he refuses to invest in "bond lookalikes".