UK

LGIM's Richard Hodges has added 12% to his high yield positions in the £1.3bn Dynamic Bond trust, and expects to take exposure to 50% this year.

The Aberdeen multi-management team has begun to build up exposure to developed regions, with a skew towards UK equity funds.

The governor of the Bank of England has recently warned we in the UK are living through the longest and worst squeeze on real incomes any of us have ever witnessed.

Mark Lyttleton, co-manager of the Blackrock UK Absolute Alpha fund, and Ed Fishwick, the group's quantitative risk analysis group, discuss the fund's investment process.

Investec's Philip Rodrigs says accessing small caps via a specialist active manager could bring value to your portfolio.

In the latest Conjecture debate, our panelists from LV=, Rathbones Unit Trust Management and Standard & Poor's discussed UK equity income.

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Olivia Mayell, client portfolio manager on the JPM Multi-Asset Income fund, tells Julian Marr, editorial director of Marketing-hub.co.uk, the answer to the UK's growing need for income lies in a wide range of overseas assets

"You have a choice between the natural stability of gold and the honesty and intelligence of the members of government. And with all due respect for those gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, vote for gold." - George Bernard...

Schroders' head of multi-manager Andrew Yeadon has left the firm after a merger of its multi-manager and multi-asset teams.