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Veteran investor Warren Buffett has told investors Ben Bernanke's interest rate policy has been "brutal" for holders of bonds and punishing to savers.

The BBC is planning to tap the bond markets for the first time in order to raise capital, according to the Times.

Apple wowed the debt markets on Tuesday with the largest ever bond deal for a non-financial institution.

Henderson Global Investors has managed to reverse outflows from its retail book after seeing the first net inflows into the business since Q1 2011.

Franklin Templeton Investments has appointed David Zahn to head its European fixed income team following an overhaul of its strategy in this area.

TOP PERFORMERS

Investors in some of the UK's worst funds have been urged to dump ten serial underperformers from their portfolios in a study by Chelsea Financial Services.

Schroders has promoted Karl Dasher to head of North America, replacing Jamie Dorrien-Smith who is retiring in July after 19 years of service at the firm.

Managers around the globe have upped their exposure to equities in what Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts dubbed the 'great rotation' of 2013.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM)'s chairman Jim O'Neill outlines five encouraging signs from the global economy and asks whether 2013 will be the year investors ditch fixed income in favour of equities.