Fidelity

The ‘great rotation' out of fixed income and into equities is pushing funds' assets towards maximum capacity, which could result in top-performing funds soft-closing in the coming months.

Fidelity is launching a short-duration version of bond manager Ian Spreadbury's £3.3bn MoneyBuilder Income fund.

China's economic growth picked up in the fourth quarter of 2012, but data for the year as a whole showed the country recorded its slowest growth for 13 years.

Fidelity's head of research for European equities, Henk-Jan Rikkerink, has outlined eight core themes revealed in a recent survey of the group's investment professionals.

2012 was a mixed year for markets, with developed market equities recovering from a summer sell-off to make marginal gains, while some segments of the property and bond markets outperformed.

Investment strategists and asset allocation heads have labelled last week's fiscal cliff deal a ‘short-term fix', which could spark a fresh round of sovereign debt downgrades in the coming months.

BOLTON: MY OUTLOOK FOR 2013

Dalton Strategic Partnership's Peter Kaye is to join Fidelity to run its £1bn American fund, as current manager Aris Vatis leaves the group.

After a year of debate on a hard versus soft landing in China, leading investors in emerging market equities give their outlooks for 2013 as it appears China's economy has settled into a slower pace of growth.

Fidelity Worldwide Investment is to soft-close its popular FAST Europe strategy following a surge in inflows, Investment Week can reveal.