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Vanguard Asset Management is lowering charges on a number of its LifeStrategy funds as the price was in passive investment continues to heat up.

CONTRARIAN INVESTOR

Markets are fickle creatures. This time last year, China was a veritable investment dog for most institutional investors. Now, a short 12 months later, it must qualify as the top contrarian bet for 2014.

Chancellor George Osborne presented his 2013 Autumn Statement to the House of Commons this week, declaring Britain is on the road to economic recovery. Here is our round up of five key points from the Statement.

Stamp duty on Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) is to be abolished from April 2014 in a bid to encourage more firms to domicile products in the UK.

In part two of our report from Investment Week's Global Investment Focus event, held in London on 13 November, Laura Dew asks our speakers for their views on the markets, and where they are finding the best opportunities right now.

Lyxor Asset Management's director Ben Thompson explains the group's plans to gobble up market share in the exchange traded funds (ETF) market.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM)'s Tony Lanning has bought into a resources ETF across his multi-manager range, after exhausting the search for an active alternative.

In an environment where bonds have sold off and equities look expensive, providing a return above inflation is tough, Edward Allen of Thurleigh Investment Managers tells Anna Fedorova.

Vanguard has moved to reduce prices on its emerging market and global bond trackers as price competition in the passive space heats up.