Morningstar

As the world adjusts to the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) funds have been impacted alongside other products, but will prices rise (and become more complicated) as a result of the RDR, or will the regulator's goal to lower fund costs be achieved?

ITs

Marlborough's top-performing fund manager Giles Hargreave has admitted it will be difficult for UK small-cap equities to replicate their 2012 performance this year.

Graham Glass has joined City Financial to spearhead the group's fixed income operations, as the firm looks to build up its product range in this area.

COMMODITIES

Former Baillie Gifford European small-cap manager David Walton has joined Hargreave Hale to assist Giles Hargreave across his Marlborough small-cap unit trusts and the firm's VCT products.

European technology company earnings are set to bounce back this year but investors should tread carefully, according to Franklin Templeton European Growth fund manager Mike Clements.

Neptune founder Robin Geffen has blamed an underweight to financials for the recent poor performance of the £922m Neptune Income fund.

BIG INTERVIEW

US fund managers who avoided technology giant Apple in the final quarter of last year have raced to the top of the IMA North America sector after the company endured a fierce sell-off.