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Manager sees little interest to be earned from cash, believing buybacks would be more beneficial to investors

After last year's relatively poor showing, 2010 should prove to be a more rewarding time for equity income investors

Gartmore's Roger Guy and Guillaume Rambourg have delivered returns of more than 10% since launching the European Absolute Return fund a year ago.

During periods of sharp recovery, investors seek out companies that share a combination of characteristics including poor relative returns in the market decline, attractiveness on stable measures of value such as book-to-price and high financial and operational...

UK insurer Standard Life leads the gains this morning despite reporting a fall in life and pensions sales in 2009.

At the start of 2009 markets were in freefall, there were concerns about financial and economic meltdown and the last place you wanted exposure to was smaller companies with their higher risk and greater exposure to the domestic economy.

As the debate between passive vs active investing continues to divide opinion, a fine balance exists between the two, wherein it is possible to get a passive underlay with an active overlay. In such precarious times, balance is everything

As its name suggests, the UK equity income sector provides exposure to companies that pay above-average dividends (the criteria for inclusion in the IMA UK equity income sector is a dividend yield of at least 110% of the FTSE All Share index yield).

Trends in the UK equity market can determine how to construct a portfolio with the best yield

UK pharmaceuticals rose in early trading after speculation mounted President Barrack Obama's healthcare reforms could be thwarted by the Republicans.