Managed funds

Vanguard Asset Management has launched a global short-term bond index fund for investors looking to manage volatility in their portfolios.

Schroders is to streamline its multi-manager range following the takeover of Cazenove last year, with a number of portfolios to be merged away.

Close Brothers Asset Management investment director Riitta Hujanen is looking to US tech companies to continue the strong run they experienced throughout 2013.

Rathbones' chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth has labelled the apparent value in European equities ‘misleading', claiming the region is in for another year of anaemic growth.

Henderson Value trust's managers have pledged to avoid 'face-saving' sales and concentrate on realising the longer-term potential of stocks to turn the fortunes of the fund around.

Vanguard Asset Management is lowering charges on a number of its LifeStrategy funds as the price was in passive investment continues to heat up.

David Jane, founder of Darwin Investment Managers, has named the five investment themes he is backing in his multi-asset fund to outperform this year.

Some of the UK's largest asset managers could face more onerous financial requirements after regulators unveiled proposals to subject fund giants to greater scrutiny.

A slowing China could force US and UK central banks into a further easing of policy this year, even as investors prepare themselves for an end to QE, according to Jupiter CIO John Chatfeild-Roberts.

Marlborough has rebranded its UK Leading Companies fund as the UK Multi-Cap Growth fund.