Funds

While there are a number of solar ETFs investing in promising projects globally, investors may be better off opting for a more general clean-energy-based fund strategy, writes Martin Morris.

Regulation is laying the foundations for funds of ETFs and greater adoption of these products among IFAs, writes Matthew Craig.

The £1.9bn Foreign & Colonial investment trust has brought management of its Japan mandate back in-house to F&C after removing Goldman Sachs.

Baker Steel Capital Management is to rename and list its Genus Capital natural resources fund in London next month.

UBS Investment Bank has launched a range of 69 exchange-traded commodities on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

VCTs have invested almost £1bn in small companies between April 2004 and April 2009, according to a new survey from the AIC.

The investment trust sector could suffer if Anthony Bolton fails to make a success of his new Fidelity China Special Situations vehicle, securities broker Winterflood has warned.

Fidelity European Values has attributed the company's underperformance to its defensive stance last year.

F&C's Mike Woodward says investment trusts can help higher earners caught in the new 50% tax bracket safeguard their wealth

Peter Pearson Lund, chief executive of Rathbones Unit Trust Management, says he would go "straight back into markets" now given the outlook for them, if he were not retiring from the City after 40 years at the end of this month.