Multi-asset

Tom Yeowart has joined Troy Asset Management to run the Troy Spectrum fund, working under chief executive Sebastian Lyon and fund manager Francis Brooke.

‘I am surprised at the market reaction to current geopolitical risk’

Why Talib Sheikh's fund has 1,600 holdings

The Investment Management Association (IMA) is understood to be looking at a range of sectors for the increasing number of risk-targeted funds which are choosing to remain unclassified.

Global investors have been snapping up cheap Chinese stocks as signs of a banking collapse recede, but economic data remains mixed.

Threadneedle is to close its Worldwide Select multi-manager fund, one of the range that it acquired from LV= in 2011.

Fracking hit the headlines recently when the UK government gave the go-ahead to a major expansion plan which will see firms bid for onshore oil and gas licences, but will it have the same success as it did in the US?

Steering clear of the asset gatherers

UK IFAs are among hundreds of creditors facing severe losses in a £60m investment scheme marketed as low risk but "tainted with illegality", according to the firm's liquidators.

It should be plain sailing for investors in shares this summer. The world economy is growing this year, and should do so again next year at a reasonable pace.