IMA

London has failed in a bid to stall voting on a controversial EU plan to tighten regulation on alternative investment funds.

Assets under management within fund of funds have reached a record level of £46.5bn, according to the IMA.

Piper and Oliver cherry pick strategies in multi-manager range

Emerging markets are seen to be leading the global recovery as sector outperforms

There is every danger the UK could be turning into a nation of savers with last week's IMA figures revealing the strongest savings into Isas for nearly a decade.

Top performers say strength of emerging markets over past year has been major contributor to performance

Royal London UK Growth manager uses stockpicking skills to select growth opportunities across market-cap spectrum to sit top of sector

Tony Lanning, head of multi-manager at Gartmore, explains the thinking behind the group's MultiManager Absolute Return fund range

Outperforming their large-cap brethren, Japan's smaller companies have driven a sector gain of 42.6% over one year with value still to be found

Casson's Latin American fund reports consistently strong returns over past 12 months