Equities

Aberdeen Asset Management saw its shares jump 9% in trading this morning after the group reported a huge hike in its dividend.

European markets and the US dollar have extended losses after US GDP came in at a lower than expected 2.5% in Q1.

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.