Equities

BlackRock's chief equity strategist Bob Doll is retiring at the end of the month after 34 years in the industry.

City Asset Management founder Vivian Coghill has passed away following a short illness.

Equities are in the midst of a major global bull market, at a time when investors are significantly underinvested in the asset class, said Skandia Investment Group's Rupert Watson.

Derwent Capital has closed down its Twitter-based hedge fund after just a month of trading, and is now set to offer its sentiment-based technology to day traders instead.

European equity markets have given up all yesterday's gains as investors remain on the back foot ahead of today's EU summit.

Equity market sentiment is still too positive to represent a real buying signal for investors, who would be better served by holding back their cash for now, boutique RMG Wealth has said.

Tom Dobell, manager of the £7.8bn M&G Recovery fund, has warned BP it must up its game or risk being snapped up by another oil major.

In the latest Conjecture debate, our panelists from North Investment Partners, S&P Capital IQ and Threadneedle discussed US Equities.

BlackRock's Bob Doll said stock prices need to rise and bond prices need to fall before American investors will buy US stocks again.

Canny investors should have heeded the "clear signal" to buy equities in December, as they are set to rise despite the threat of a bear market in bonds, said Investec's Max King.