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Skandia's UK Strategic Best Ideas fund has reached an all-time-high net market exposure following the removal of two mandates last month.

OPM Fund Management has made a slew of fund changes in the past month, with Investec Asset Management among the main beneficiaries.

Investment Week Conjecture

SVM Asset Management's Colin McLean believes the case for investing in gold miners has gained impetus from bullion's recent performance in sterling terms.

London's RWC Partners says it will launch Ucits variants of each new hedge fund it establishes as long as the strategy meets key criteria.

Jupiter CIO John Chatfeild-Roberts is keeping the strong recent inflows into his Merlin range in cash to allow him to invest into periods of weakness caused by heightened market volatility.

M&G posted net retail sales of £5.6bn for the whole of 2009, putting it way ahead of second placed Invesco Perpetual on £3.62bn, according to Lipper.

Mark Lyttleton is probably the one name that comes to most people's lips when describing a successful, popular implementation of an explicitly absolute return strategy. His fund's record is of consistent positive net of fees returns through the market...

This week's Conjecture panel debate the quick run-up experienced recently in emerging markets and the themes they will be following

Former BlackRock fund manager Graham Birch has been appointed non-executive director of mining company Petropavlosk.