Managed funds

Veritas co-founder and CEO Charles Richardson talks to Caroline Allen about how smaller, tightly-run companies provide better opportunities in testing market conditions

F&C's Multi Manager team has increased the overseas bond exposure in their £89m Cautious fund.

We are seeing growing evidence of impending tightening by key Central Banks. Most investors are probably eyeing the dominant player, the US Federal Reserve.

All but one of 142 funds in resurgent IMA peer group register positive returns over one year to 19 February.

M&G Cautious Multi Asset outperforms peer group significantly under Jane's tenure.

Group's manager Bish Limbu aims to hit £1.5bn in assets under management by year end

Jupiter's Merlin multi-manager range has built up a 9% market share of the growing UK fund of funds space, with close to £4bn in assets under management.

Kira Nickerson on the risks investors need to consider when entering passive funds.

OPM Fund Management has upped the ante in its ongoing battle with Octopus Investments over rights to the acronym OPM.

The rally in equities, credit and commodities from March last year neatly fits the pattern of the market discounting an economic recovery six months ahead of the turn in the (backward-looking) data.