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J.P. Morgan has raised £46.7m for its Brazil investment trust, the first UK closed-ended company focused on the Latin American country.

Fidelity Asian Values has introduced gearing for the first time since September. The £120m trust has drawn down $9m of a $15m loan facility it arranged ING Bank in February.

Activist investing usually produces the best results during the early-to-mid stages of an economic recovery, making the current economic environment probably the best seen for this type of investor since the early 1990s.

The £156m Pacific Assets Trust reported a 56.8% rise in NAV, for the year ending 31 January 2010.

Shares in RAB Special Situations rose 31% in March, outperforming the 1.1% average from listed hedge funds, after commencing a buyback that absorbed 6% of its share capital.

Gartmore has the ability to apply a dilution levy to investors looking to withdraw assets from its range of European funds on the back of the suspension of Guillaume Rambourg.

Standard Life Investments' Property Income Trust plans to grow its dividends by 10% this year after buying £21m of property in 2009.

Investors in exchange-listed hedge funds should expect higher returns than for unlisted funds to compensate them for the extra risks they are taking.

Baillie Gifford's Mike Gush has increased exposure to India in the £119m Pacific Horizon investment trust after becoming bullish on the country's economic growth prospects.

The introduction of gearing to the £1.1bn Witan investment trust early last year has helped the multi-manager portfolio outperform its benchmark in 2009.