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F&C's Robert Siddles believes US small caps will act as good inflation hedge when CPI starts to rise.

Paul Jourdan, renowned smaller companies manager, has completed the MBO of Noble Fund Managers with colleague Douglas Lawson.

At the start of 2009 markets were in freefall, there were concerns about financial and economic meltdown and the last place you wanted exposure to was smaller companies with their higher risk and greater exposure to the domestic economy.

Legg Mason Equity Japan manager expects trend favouring domestic-oriented small-cap growth to continue

Socially responsible investing (SRI) has undergone a remarkable journey from its faith-based origins in the early part of the 20th century, to a sudden acceleration in the last two decades. It now has over 100 products covering not only asset class, but...

The £60m F&C US Smaller Companies investment trust beat its benchmark by nearly 20% over the year to 30 June.

Real estate equities not only continued their re-rating from July during August but they actually accelerated.

Japanese Smaller Companies sector makes gains of 25.4% over the last year

Diverse sector at the forefront of downturn over past year, with just eight funds producing positive returns to investors

After some uncertain times, the newsflow is getting more positive and the tables appear to be turning. Have we really come through the banking crisis unscathed or is there more bad news in the post?