Neil Woodford

Neil Woodford's new fund is a focal point of investor interest at the moment, but those looking to diversify their UK equity income exposure have a number of alternatives.

Invesco Perpetual's co-head of fixed interest Paul Read has said he expects the UK's base rate to rise in the first quarter of next year, in contrast to the forecast of his former colleague Neil Woodford.

Neil Woodford has been handed a mandate on Skandia's WealthSelect range, likely in the region of hundreds of millions of pounds, and the platform will be able to access the manager's 65bps share class.

Standard Life has become the second platform to secure cheaper access to Neil Woodford's new fund, after the group negotiated access to the 0.65% AMC share class.

Neil Woodford is considering opening talks with his former firm Invesco Perpetual about a private multi-billion pound deal to bring across his old stakes in the country's largest stocks, and avoid creating havoc in their share prices.

Mark Barnett has cut some of former manager Neil Woodford's favourite holdings in the £1.4bn Edinburgh investment trust, adding 14 new stocks since the beginning of the year.

Hargreaves Lansdown is to transfer more than £400m of multi-manager assets from Mark Barnett's Invesco Perpetual income funds to Neil Woodford's new UK equity income offering.

Hargreaves Lansdown has secured what it says is the cheapest share class in the market for Neil Woodford's new fund, selling the investment star's fund for 60bps.

Neil Woodford has said some core UK equity income stocks could be hit by dividend cuts in the near future due to "very stressed" business models.

Neil Woodford's new income fund will aim to deliver high single digit returns annually, despite a 'challenging' economic backdrop he predicts will weigh on markets.