Multi-asset

Robin Batchelor of the BlackRock New Energy investment trust reveals how two traumatic events of 2011 will drive the sector's performance

PRIVATE EQUITY

Investors are not yet ready to deploy stockpiled cash into equity markets despite the recent rally, said Investec's Max King, as they are "afraid of the bogeyman" or unexpected shock.

In the latest Conjecture debate, our panelists from Aberdeen Asset Management, S&P Capital IQ and Scottish Widows Investment Partnership discussed Multi Manager.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has confirmed a £60m interim levy for financial advisers and other investment intermediaries.

Britain's leading banks are facing allegations of mis-selling complex interest rate protection protection products to hundreds of small businesses.

Rising tensions between Iran and the rest of the world could prompt a sharp correction in equity markets, according to Lorne Baring, managing director of B Capital Wealth Management.

Santander multi-managers Tom Caddick and Toby Vaughan have bought into the BNY Mellon Absolute Return Equity fund as they take a "relatively cautious" view on risk assets.

Darwin's David Jane has bought back into banks for the first time in ‘many years' in the view they are trading well below book value and can rise significantly from here.

The chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Jim O'Neill, said another positive US payroll result on Friday could prompt a renewed rally in US equities.