Funds

The winners of Investment Week's Investment Company of the Year Awards 2014 were crowned at a ceremony in London on 25 November.

The synthetic versus passive debate still leaves some investors confused. Vanguard's Neil Cowell explains how managers can move beyond the question.

The Treasury is to give savers more freedom over how they take a tax-free lump sum from their pension pot.

Square Mile Investment Consulting and Research is to provide fund research for Cofunds users in a partnership between the two companies.

Investors are calling for more control over ETF trades executed on fund platforms, many of which are incapable of hosting the vehicles or are currently unable to offer real time trading.

Old Mutual Wealth's investment platform expert Mike Barrett (pictured) explains the thinking behind the group's plan to bulk-convert clients to unbundled share classes in 2015.

Old Mutual Wealth, the UK's third largest adviser platform with funds under administration of £30bn, will begin bulk converting any remaining clients in bundled share classes to unbundled in February 2015.

Veteran manager Anthony Bolton said he had "no idea what was coming" when he handed over management of the Fidelity Special Values investment trust in 2007.

The Big Question: Are ETFs and tracker funds becoming a bigger threat to active management?

Nucleus has boosted assets under administration by 25% year-on-year in the third quarter after a strong summer for gross inflows.