Managed funds

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.

Forecasts for the UK economy are starting to look overambitious.

The introduction of exchange-traded funds that are cheap, transparent and easy to trade has heralded a recent explosion in the number of different types of strategies available to the investor.

Duo's Thames River Distribution vehicle beats peer group, gaining 20.2% over one year

Net retail fund of funds sales totaled £3.9bn last year, almost four times the 2008 figure and the highest ever recorded.

The Newton Cautious Managed fund will waive its initial charge until the end of May, following a move to the IMA Cautious Managed sector under new manager Simon Nichols.