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A number of fund providers are supporting the split of the Absolute Return sector into sub-categories based on strategy, which could see many vehicles in the Unclassified and Specialist sectors moved into the new groupings.

F&C Investments has scrapped plans to launch a US investment trust after it failed to reach its £100m fundraising target.

CIO Plamen Monovski tells Katie Holliday about his firm's ‘Indiana Jones' approach to investing and his ambitious plans to grow the business.

Sam Vecht, head of BlackRock's emerging Europe equity team, has upped his weighting to Russia by 15% in recent months, on the view the country's equity market could significantly re-rate.

GOSLING'S GROUSE

BlackRock's head of UK fixed income, Ian Winship, is shorting gilts as yields have hit lower levels than those seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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GOSLING'S GROUSE

Mirabaud Asset Management has hired Daniel Tubbs, former co-head of BlackRock's global emerging markets team, to run an emerging markets equity fund.

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