Multi-asset

J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) has cut fees on its Fusion fund range, run by Tony Lanning, in a bid to improve the portfolios' competitiveness.

Property managers have begun putting their funds' high cash positions into the market following a surge of inflows into the sector.

Joseph Molloy, global head of index equities at Legal & General Investment Management, has joined HSBC Global Asset Management as head of passive equity.

BlackRock Natural Resources Growth & Income

BlackRock's Catherine Raw, co-manager of the group's World Mining trust, is to exit the business next month.

Investec Asset Management's John Stopford has begun hedging US equity exposure in his Diversified Income fund, despite this part of the portfolio being the most significant contributor to performance last year.

Global macro funds could receive a performance boost following a difficult year, as divergent central bank policies create a favourable environment for top-down investing, according to GAM's Charles Hepworth.

Fidelity has proposed an overhaul of conventional methods of comparing tracker funds' performance, saying simply looking at tracking errors can produce 'illusory' results.

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