Investec

FUND MANAGER FOCUS

THE BIG QUESTION

Investec is planning to switch Alastair Mundy and David Lynch's £100m Capital Accumulator fund from a zero dividend fund into a high conviction stock-picking portfolio, Investment Week understands.

The Big Question

Gold ETFs have started seeing inflows for the first time in months, as political turmoil in the Ukraine and weak Chinese data pushed investors into safe havens.

THE BIG QUESTION

The TwentyFour Select Monthly Income trust has met its minimum fundraising target despite an increasingly difficult market for trust IPOs.

Investec Asset Management's plans to launch preferentially priced share classes for key distributors have been thrown into doubt after the country's largest D2C platforms revealed no evidence of such deals.

THE BIG QUESTION

Analysts at Numis have compared charges from the likes of Barclays, Brewin, Coutts and Rathbones to investigate how industry fees stack up against platforms' newly-unveiled clean prices.