Alliance Trust

Joanna Faith asks managers for their best global income stocks.

Veteran investors Jim Rogers and 'Dr Doom' Marc Faber have clashed over the merits of investing in Chinese equities.

THE BIQ QUESTION

Alliance Trust Investments (ATI) has unveiled the launch of an absolute return bond fund, aiming to deliver an annualised 6% total return over rolling three year periods.

UK income managers Neil Tong and Kenneth Warnock have left Alliance Trust Investments, Investment Week understands.

EUROPE

THE BIG QUESTION

Aviva Investors has sold its SRI funds business to Alliance Trust Investments in a £1m deal.

Alliance Trust Investments has closed down three funds and announced a number of redundancies as chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox overhauls the business.

Katherine Garrett-Cox, CEO and CIO of the £2.5bn Alliance Trust, has argued global growth will remain stagnant next year, as the US faces the strong prospect of slipping back into recession.