Funds

Paul Feeney has told Investment Week the terms negotiated on Skandia's soon-to-be-launched Select fund range will enable the group to offer the "best model portfolio service" to UK advisers and help them take power back from other distributors.

F&C has announced several changes to its £2.6bn Foreign & Colonial investment trust, including the creation of two new sub-portfolios.

The platform industry will struggle to ever break even as a whole, according to research into firms' financial stability.

Closed-ended structures can be a more appropriate way of accessing volatile and less liquid markets, writes Richard Titherington, manager of the J.P. Morgan Global Emerging Markets Income trust.

The platform industry will struggle to ever break even as a whole, according to research into firms' financial stability.

In the latest Big Debate, our panelists from Seed Mentors Ltd, Bulletin Marketing and Maclay, Murray and Spens LLP discussed Seed EIS.

Paul Feeney, chief executive of Skandia's parent company Old Mutual Wealth, has vowed to tackle a series of administration problems that have affected advisers since the start of the year.

Henderson's Job Curtis, manager of the £838m City of London investment trust, said UK equity income investors are experiencing the best conditions since the 1950s.

PRIVATE EQUITY

BBC's Panorama programme is investigating the use of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) in self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs).