Rathbones

Carl Stick, manager of the £486m Rathbone Income fund, reveals his top five stock picks for income seekers.

Rathbones has poached Jeremy Stanyer, a specialist in private client investment management from Williams de Broe, for the position of investment director at its Aberdeen office.

Rathbones' David Coombs is adding Japanese stocks to his portfolio in the view its economy will rebound quickly from the aftermath of last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami.

Investors' growing appetite for emerging market debt is a cause for concern as the asset class could be set for a correction, says Rathbones' David Coombs.

Carl Stick has totally sold out of bank holdings in his £483m Rathbone Income fund, looking instead to stocks in the insurance and retail sectors.

Rathbones saw an increase in assets under management to £15bn in the year to December 2010, but profits were hit by a £3.6m FSCS levy.

BONDS

In the latest Conjecture debate, our panelists from BlackRock, Rathbones Asset Management, Threadneedle and Standard & Poor's discussed the current Economic Outlook.

In the latest Conjecture debate, our panelists from Legg Mason, Standard & Poor's and Rathbones Unit Trust Management discussed Corporate Bonds.

As Ireland prepares to accept a rumoured €80bn euro European Union and IMF bailout to pull it from the mire of its financial crisis, fund managers consider what the contagion effect may be on the banking sector in the UK and Europe.