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Fund buyers are taking profits in frontier markets after the recent reshuffle of constituents and a strong run of performance.

Investors have been warned against buying into Chinese tracker funds in the near term as growing interest prompts some groups to close products to new investment.

INVESTMENT TRUSTS

Hargreave Hale is seeking to raise £20m for its VCT range from new and existing investors.

Investors should avoid income-paying trusts after the sector moved to trade on a premium for the first time since the financial crisis, analysts have warned, amid growing expectations interest rates could rise this year.

Aggressive activist investors can be good for trusts - up to a point.

Infrastructure trusts could face ‘haircuts' to NAV if rates rise and inflation assumptions are revised down, analysts have warned.

Structured products are like zebras - black and white. I guess you could say they are also like Marmite - you either love them or hate them.

Arbitrageurs have renewed their attacks on the beleaguered hedge fund investment trust sector after discounts widened, putting a number of vehicles in danger of closure by the end of the year.

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