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CONTRARIAN INVESTOR

Investors should avoid income-paying trusts after the sector moved to trade on a premium for the first time since the financial crisis, analysts have warned, amid growing expectations interest rates could rise this year.

GOSLING'S GROUSE

J.P. Morgan Asset Management's Austin Forey is taking overweights in emerging market countries holding elections this year, in the view their shares could rally after a dismal start to the year.

The Association of Investment Companies is consulting members over whether to lobby for a change in how venture capital trusts are regulated, Investment Week can reveal.

The average investment trust discount is now close to the lowest it has been for over 30 years. Tim Cockerill, investment director at Rowan Dartington, asks if the trend is down to RDR.

INVESTMENT TRUSTS

The Association of Investment Companies has elected J.P. Morgan Asset Management's head of trusts Simon Crinage to its board.

The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) is putting together a list of shares and securities independent advisers can continue to recommend after restrictions on their use of higher-risk unregulated investments come into force next year.

The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has changed the name of five of its sectors, bringing them into line with comparable sectors in the Investment Management Association's (IMA) universe.