Neil Woodford has told Hargreaves Lansdown's head of research, Mark Dampier, he is wary of a re-run of the eurozone crisis which began in late 2009 and battered stocks across the continent.
Multi-asset managers are finding renewed opportunities in UK government bonds as they try to eke out value for their portfolios at the start of 2014.
Standard Life Investments has moved to stop smaller platform investors from accessing its Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) fund's cheaper institutional share class by closing a loophole that waived the minimum investment.
Invesco Perpetual's Paul Read is maintaining high liquidity levels across all the group's bond funds at the start of this year as "difficult" markets persist.
Since the news Neil Woodford is leaving Invesco Perpetual next year, investors have been prompted to review their asset allocation in the equity income space.