Managed funds

Aberdeen Asset Management's multi-manager team is backing equities to outperform this year, and is focusing particularly on Asia, with an overweight to the region.

Fidelity's head of research for European equities, Henk-Jan Rikkerink, has outlined eight core themes revealed in a recent survey of the group's investment professionals.

One of the industry's most widely followed strategists, Albert Edwards, has said depressed European equity markets are a once in a lifetime opportunity for investors following the savage sell-off in 2012.

Mirabaud Asset Management has launched a new multi-asset strategy called Dynamic Allocation.

F&C Investments has launched the first capital protected RDR-compliant share class in the UK for its Lifestyle range and other multi-manager funds run by Gary Potter and Rob Burdett.

David North, head of asset allocation and head of global high yield bonds at Legal & General IM, is to leave the group after 12 years.

Apollo Multi Asset Management co-founder Steve Brann discusses the impact of the US deal to avert the fiscal cliff, and outlines his six key asset allocation decisions for 2013.

Psigma's chief investment officer Tom Becket outlines his five core investment themes for the next five years, with uncorrelated yield and emerging market growth featuring on his list of priorities.

BENCHMARKS

Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM)'s chairman Jim O'Neill outlines five encouraging signs from the global economy and asks whether 2013 will be the year investors ditch fixed income in favour of equities.