Morningstar

EMERGING MARKETS

Skill or luck?" the marketing director of an asset manager asked me recently about a former top fund manager he has worked with.

Aberdeen's Bruce Stout, manager of the £1.6bn Murray International investment trust, has reduced his fixed interest exposure to its lowest level in 25 years, claiming there is little value left in the asset class.

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.

Morningstar OBSR's investment services director Peter Toogood and head of investment consultancy Gill Hutchison are set to leave the firm.

Morningstar's Erin Davis discusses investors' options when the time comes for the UK government to sell its stakes in the banking sector.

After alpha and beta, gamma can measure the value that professional advice adds to your investment returns.

THE BIQ QUESTION

Miners have taken a battering over the past two years but Neil Gregson, manager of the £1.4bn J.P. Morgan Natural Resources fund, tells Annabelle Williams where he is looking for fresh opportunities.

Wealth managers who only have limited contact with the regulator should be wary of staying below the radar and ought to make efforts to contact the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), consultant Richard Scrivener from regulation specialist Bovill has advised....