Property

Brazil faces increasing uncertainty in the run-up to its election following the death of opposition leader Eduardo Campos last month.

Wealth manager Turcan Connell is planning to launch its own real estate investment trust (REIT) in a bid to offer clients a solution to persistently low interest rates on cash holdings.

UK IFAs are among hundreds of creditors facing severe losses in a £60m investment scheme marketed as low risk but "tainted with illegality", according to the firm's liquidators.

Neuberger Berman has hired M&G's Gillian Tiltman for its global real estate securities team.

Shareholders in the troubled Invesco Property Income trust have been told they are likely to lose their entire investment after it was suspended pending an effective firesale of its assets.

Standard Life Investments has overhauled its £420m Select Property fund, giving the portfolio a global remit.

F&C is in discussions with the IMA to add its Real Estate Securities and Real Estate Equity Long/Short funds to the IMA Property and Absolute Return sectors sectors respectively.

Murdoch Asset Management director Tony Dunne tells Julia Rampen why he prefers Mark Barnett to Neil Woodford, what opportunities he sees in student accommodation and why he is steering clear of the rally in Japan.

With banks offloading assets and the Spanish stock market on the up over the past 18 months, some see now as a good time to invest in one of the biggest losers of the eurozone crisis.

Property fund managers are assessing ways to mitigate the potential impact of soaring inflows as the sector becomes increasingly popular with investors.