Multi-asset

Threadneedle is to push ahead with plans to convert its UK Property Trust to a more tax-efficient structure.

Threadneedle is to merge its multi-manager range into funds run by Seven Investment Management (7IM), with two managers set to move across as part of the deal, Investment Week can reveal.

Distribution Technology (DT), the risk-profiling tool provider, has launched a fund risk-targeting service.

Miton has overhauled part of its multi-asset range, changing the investment objective of one of its flagship portfolios as it rebrands two funds.

M&G Investments is set to close its Global Real Estate Securities fund after the departure of manager Gillian Tiltman prompted outflows from the strategy.

Generation Buy to Let

Architas is launching a global multi-asset fund for CIO Caspar Rock as demand for income-generating products continues to grow.

Invesco Perpetual has boosted its Global Targeted Returns team as assets in the UK-based strategy top £1bn, 18 months after launch.

Geopolitics is likely to play a big part in the direction of markets and investors must play close attention to events in Russia and the Middle East, according to Smith & Williamson's James Burns.

The fear of a return to an environment similar to that seen in 2008 still seems to be a topic on people's minds, writes Absolute Return Partners' Niels Jensen.