Funds

The FSA today said it wants to proceed with its plan, originally mooted in March 2010, to ban payments from fund managers to platforms.

Henderson is testing the water for a C-share issue to raise additional capital for John Pattullo's Diversified Income trust.

Manager rotates Income Growth away from mega caps to broaden income stream

Stephen Peters, investment trust analyst at Charles Stanley, looks at some of the winners and losers among this year's new funds.

Jeremy Tigue's £2.1bn Foreign & Colonial investment trust's half-year report shows its holdings in listed private equity drove performance, accounting for 11% of returns.

SPDR ETFs, the exchange traded funds (ETF) platform of State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), has listed a range of physically-backed equity and fixed income ETFs on the London Stock Exchange.

Direct Property-Europe is top performing sector over first six months of 2011.

Regulators have rightly been puzzling over what could go wrong from here. They are spoilt for choice, as they seek to distinguish between the risks that can be well managed, and the risks that might in bad circumstances bring the system down again.

The largest investment trust to enter the market this year, the $507m Neuberger Berman Global Floating Rate Income fund, has implemented a redemption trigger that will buy back shares at close to net asset value if the company moves onto a wide discount....

Investment trusts have an inbuilt advantage over of their open-ended peers in the run up to RDR, writes F&C's Ed Morse.