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Polar Capital has launched a Healthcare Blue Chip fund as it expands the range run by Daniel Mahony and Gareth Powell's specialist team.

Investments in the healthcare sector have been on an upward climb in the last decade - but shares in drug companies are not the only way to play the sector. Kenneth Mackenzie from Target Advisers explains why the fundamentals for residential care stack...

Gemma Game, manager of the £380m AXA Framlington Health fund, has resigned from the group, Investment Week can reveal.

Rising valuations in healthcare stocks have led to fears of a bubble. Newton's Stephen Rowntree outlines the fundamentals which support valuations.

Newton Investment Management's veteran fund manager Iain Stewart said the past year has been the most difficult period he has experienced in almost three decades in the industry.

Richard Scott, chief investment officer of Hawksmoor, is backing healthcare as a sector to outperform and has added three preferred names to his multi-manager funds.

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Polar Capital has hired Deane Donnigan and David Pinniger to work within its healthcare team in an effort to increase the range of the group's products in this area.

Schroders is to change the name of its £74m Medical Discovery fund as it brings the fund in line with competitors.

Investors should snap up bargains in US healthcare, technology and financial stocks which offer better value than any time over the past 60 years, Legg Mason's chief investment officer Sam Peters has said.