Multi-asset

Vanguard Asset Management is lowering charges on a number of its LifeStrategy funds as the price was in passive investment continues to heat up.

David Jane, founder of Darwin Investment Managers, has named the five investment themes he is backing in his multi-asset fund to outperform this year.

Some of the UK's largest asset managers could face more onerous financial requirements after regulators unveiled proposals to subject fund giants to greater scrutiny.

Asset under management in gold exchange-traded products (ETP) almost halved during 2013 as gold prices dived, driving investors out of the asset class.

Troubled property firm Brandeaux is to wind up six of its long-suspended property funds following calls from investors wanting to exit the vehicles.

A slowing China could force US and UK central banks into a further easing of policy this year, even as investors prepare themselves for an end to QE, according to Jupiter CIO John Chatfeild-Roberts.

F&C has launched a global real estate securities fund, managed by Alban Lhonneur and Marcus Phayre-Mudge.

Marlborough has rebranded its UK Leading Companies fund as the UK Multi-Cap Growth fund.

The government's Help to Buy scheme has triggered over £1bn of new home loans in the first three months since its inception, the Prime Minister has said.

Gold is on course to record its worst year for more than three decades following huge falls over 2013.