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Old Mutual UK Smaller Companies manager Dan Nickols has noted the "rich source of ideas" represented by the IPO market ahead of 2015's listing season.

The dearth of value opportunities in Western equity markets alongside a host of other issues leaves emerging market equities as the last man standing. Should income seekers change their focus?

Global equity income funds must face up to the prospect of switching sectors in 2015 as the Investment Management Association (IMA) begins to monitor rolling three-year yields.

Investors are continuing to fall into the 'trap' of buying companies with a high dividend yield, according to Invesco Perpetual's Mark Barnett.

The AIM market has been battered this year, dragged down by falls of more than 50% in some of the index heavyweights. Hargreave Hale's Oliver Bedford highlights two lesser-watched stocks lighting up the market.

With 61% of UK dividends paid from just 15 companies, Talib Sheikh, manager of the JPM Multi-Asset Income fund, explains why investors should look to REITs and credit for global diversification.

After decades of superb growth and dividend payouts, the supermarkets have encountered an epic adversary. Is it curtains for income investors? Or are there alternatives to battered banks, insurers and oil companies? Walker Crips' Chris Kitchenham explores....

Small-cap rethink

Chelverton Asset Management has revealed some of the stocks the group expects will power its new UK Equity Growth fund when it launches later this month.

The tide has turned against mid caps as tourists have retreated and investors head to mega caps for yield. But with lower prospects for growth among FTSE 100 stocks, should investors be favouring mid caps again? Ecclesiastical's Andrew Jackson investigates....