Invesco Perpetual

UK equity income funds are nearing single stock limits on key holdings, causing concentration risk fears to mount, but which funds are taking the biggest bets?

With the news the industry's best known fund manager, Neil Woodford, is moving on from Invesco Perpetual, there is a lot of pressure on his successor Mark Barnett.

THE BIQ QUESTION

Invesco Perpetual's Neil Woodford has been awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

Neil Woodford's £13.7bn High Income fund is at risk of being expelled from the IMA UK Equity Income sector at the end of 2013 if its historic yield does not improve.

Invesco Perpetual's head of investment Neil Woodford has begun building new positions in a number of businesses across his £25bn fund range over the past year.

A look at what might be on the regulatory horizon for wealth managers was a story which caught our readers' attention this week.

GLOBAL

Andrew Bell, chairman of the Association of Investment Companies (AIC), has warned many boards have not moved quickly enough to reduce charges on their investment trusts.

Fund buyers have been selling out of high yield bond funds as liquidity dries up in the secondary market and they predict little value remains in the asset class.