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The introduction of gearing to the £1.1bn Witan investment trust early last year has helped the multi-manager portfolio outperform its benchmark in 2009.

Winterflood Securities warns the private equity sector still faces widespread challenges despite recent results showing a rise in net asset values.

SLI's Gordon Humphries says the UK stock market has not been suffering in line with the UK economy in recent weeks and one of the key drivers of this dislocation is the massive overseas exposure of many UK-listed companies

I was first attracted to ETFs by their simplicity and low costs. As a long-standing advocate of indexing investments in efficient, complex and foreign markets for a variety of good reasons, the advent of the ETF was manna from heaven.

Denmark's Saxo Bank has shelved plans for a UK property fund, saying prices here are now too steep.

FTSE Group has unveiled an index series designed to provide active returns based on components in its All-World index range.

Foreign & Colonial's Jeremy Tigue is expecting equity bull run to support private equity valuations in 2010

Constant Maturity Commodity Index is the first benchmark index to diversify across commodities and maturities

Deutsche Bank has listed an ETF providing exposure to China on the Singapore exchange SGX, offering European investors access to A-shares through a Ucits-compliant vehicle.

AIC director general Ian Sayers discusses how the investment trust industry has coped with the financial crisis and regulatory pressures