Global Equities

Threadneedle's Jeremy Podger has urged investors to avoid last year's best performers whose share prices have already soared.

Lindsell Train is launching an offshore Global Equity fund on 16 March, investing in companies with leading brand names.

For the first time in five years, Goldman Sachs is more bullish on US growth than global consensus.

GLOBAL EQUITIES

Stuart Rhodes, the manager of the £633m M&G Global Dividend fund, and investment specialist Kotaro Miyata, discuss the prospects for sustainable dividend growth across global markets.

SVM has closed its Balanced Managed fund due to a lack of investor demand.

Crispin Odey has highlighted the financial sector as one of four key areas of the market he expects to outperform in the next one to two years.

In the latest Conjecture debate, our panelists from Aberdeen Asset Management, Standard & Poor's and Rathbone Unit Trust Management discussed global equities.

SVM is planning to convert Colin McLean's UK Alpha fund into a global stockpicking vehicle, the SVM World Equity fund.

Fundsmith founder Terry Smith has laid down the gauntlet to other asset managers, offering a high-conviction equity fund with no initial charge and 1% AMC.