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Multi-asset managers are exploring alternative low-risk bond investments as they prepare their portfolios for a more constrained fixed income environment in 2013.

A Ratner moment, Skandia cost cuts and more taxes on the rich all made our top ten list of best read stories on the Investment Week website this week.

Standard Life has confirmed it is to cut 139 jobs from across its business

The merger of Glencore and Xstrata to form the world's largest mining company has finally been approved by shareholders, but has claimed the job of Xstrata chairman Sir John Bond in a row over pay.

Standard Life's Global Absolute Return Strategies fund has dropped out of the top ten highest inflows on Fidelity FundsNetwork, according to data from the platform.

Standard Life Investments' £13bn Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) fund has bought back into European equities for the first time in over a year.

Demand for Standard Life Investments' popular MyFolio range has helped the business grow assets under management to almost £80bn, the company said today.

Equity fund flows surged to €1.91bn in September, the first positive monthly figure since February, Morningstar's latest European fund flows data has shown.

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The FSA should go further in its DFM transparency drive and oblige discretionaries to publish total expense ratios for their portfolios, according to David Tiller, director of strategy & business development at Standard Life Wealth.