Artemis

As advisers digest last week's revelation that top UK fund manager Richard Buxton is to exit Schroders after more than a decade at the group, attention is now turning to where to invest next.

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ON UK GROWTH

Investors' desperate search for income continues as rumours abound of the possibility of negative interest rates and bond yields remain at record low levels.

Artemis Global Select managers Simon Edelsten and Alex Illingworth have bought into a Burma-focused real estate firm as they take advantage of an increasingly accessible market.

Artemis Investment Management co-founder John Dodd has backed financier Nathan Rothschild in his boardroom battle over coal miner Bumi.

Inflation may have held steady at 2.7% in the final month of 2012, but this year it is expected to rear its ugly head once more as the impact of falling sterling pushes up import costs.

ON EUROPE

Leading global equity investors cast their eye over their favourite markets for 2012, and give their outlooks for the coming year, in which several developed economies will face significant macro-level challenges.

Skandia has agreed terms with Artemis and Invesco Perpetual to add its funds to its restricted panel launching next year.