Economics

Nearly half of investment managers see merger & acquisitions as the best route for growth as senior figures become more optimistic about the economy, a KPMG Investment Management survey found.

MARKETS

GLG has launched a UCITS III version of its long/short financials strategy, managed by David Sanders and Stephen Holliday.

RBS could start paying dividends to preference shareholders again later this year, which could lead to a £400m capital raising.

GAME Group administrators have announced 333 of its UK shops that are still open have been sold to private investment firm OpCapita.

A strong performance from US and Asian stocks has helped push global equity indices to their strongest start to a year since 1998.

In the latest Conjecture debate, our panelists from Aberdeen Asset Management, Rathbone Unit Trust Management and S&P Capital IQ discussed Economic Outlook.

Spain has announced plans to cut its budget by €27bn in 2012 as part of one of the toughest austerity drives in history.

Royal London Asset Management's Martin Cholwill is backing Hargreaves Lansdown in the view worries over impact of RDR on the firm are overdone.

Polar Capital is offering a special share class to investors in William Calvert's $33m (£21m) Emerging Markets Income fund.