Goldman Sachs

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Neptune's head of US equities Felix Wintle is preparing to increase exposure to financials in his US Opportunities fund, which has had a long-term underweight to the sector.

Investment banking giant JPMorgan has been revealed as the £1bn mystery acquirer of more than 50% of the copper on the London Metal Exchange.

You would think intermediaries have enough to worry about for the future. Where will Europe's periphery go? What about RDR? Should they outsource allocation? The list goes on.

Remember when all investors had to worry about was the possibility of a double-dip recession next year? Those times seem like the simple, innocent days of spring compared with the icy scenarios now evolving.

Frontier Capital Management is launching a managed futures fund of funds this week.

Having just reached the first anniversary of its launch, the Goldman Sachs US Equity Absolute Return portfolio provides a route, through a Ucits structure, to access the US equity market.

Billionaire investment guru Warren Buffett says it will be a "sad day" when Goldman Sachs unwinds his profitable $5bn position in the banking giant.

Goldman Sachs could repay a $5bn preferred stock investment from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, which helped the bank negotiate through the 2008 financial crisis.

The FTSE 100 failed to respond to broker upgrades and healthy earnings reports in early trading, advancing only six points, or 0.1%, to 5,562.37 points.