Equities

Shares in Standard Life were topping the FTSE 100 leaderboard this morning after its latest update showed assets under management(AUM)at its investment business had reached a new record.

Barclays' Q1 adjusted pre-tax profit has dropped 25% to £1.8bn after the bank took a £500m hit over its restructuring programme.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management has highlighted what it expects will be the three main investment themes to follow in Q2.

Fidelity's Michael Clark has warned against buying into BP and Shell amid a dwindling oil price and ongoing issues for both businesses.

US fund house Polen Capital Management is making a move into the UK market with the launch of the Polen Focus US Growth fund.

Liquidity in fixed income is a topic that investors have increasingly focused on since the onset of the credit crisis, and rightly so.

Ashok Vaswani, chief executive of retail and business at Barclays, has admitted that 2012 was a "very difficult year" for the bank, and said the decision to release details of staff's £38.5m bonus details on Budget day was a "mistake" but claimed it was...

Goldman Sachs expects strong returns from equities to continue in the next three years, led by the Asia ex Japan region.

Our ten most popular stories of this week were something of a mixed bag - readers wanted to know which were the most popular funds of Q1, why equity valuations could be misleading, and who was the latest high profile hire at Ashcourt Rowan.

Kleinwort Benson CIO discusses where investors are really putting their money and reveals the equity markets he is backing this year.