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With concerns surrounding global growth, Peter Hewitt, manager of the F&C Managed Portfolio Income trust, highlights the trusts set to benefit from the UK being the fastest-growing G7 economy.

Tony Dalwood, CEO of Gresham House, explains how the search for ‘new' alternative asset classes has seen investors turn to a hybrid approach uniting private strategies and public markets

As the alternative investment market reaches its 20th anniversary this week, managers highlight some of the most impressive company successes - as well as the major failures on the junior market - over the past two decades.

Miton's UK MicroCap trust has announced its first share issue since launch in April, raising an additional £4.3m.

Old Mutual Global Investors (OMGI) is to alter the investment objective of Richard Watts' UK Mid Cap fund to allow the manager to hold more in mid-cap stocks sitting outside the FTSE 250.

Carl Howard, commercial director at TD Direct Investing, analyses the best and worst economic performers on AIM since it launched

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