Standard Life

Investors ask whether falling Chinese housing starts could trigger end of commodity super-cycle.

FIXED INCOME

After a volatile start to 2012, equity markets have staged a prolonged rally in recent weeks.

Standard Life Investments (SLI) saw profits increase by 21% last year, thanks in part to rising revenues and the continued popularity of GARS.

Standard Life Investments' top performing small cap manager Harry Nimmo has labelled the recent rally in the small cap index as a 'dash for trash' after seeing his fund slip down the rankings.

The €1trn in cheap loans provided by the ECB since December is expected to be only the start of a wave of liquidity measures that store up problems for the eurozone.

Standard Life Investments' Harry Nimmo has stepped down from running the Scottish Widows HIFML UK Smaller Companies Alpha fund as the group moves the management in-house.

FUND MANAGER FOCUS

Small-cap star Harry Nimmo has revealed his investment trust took a hit from the sharp sell-off in online clothes retailer ASOS in the last six months of 2011.

M&G Investments' Alex Odd has entered Bestinvest's infamous list of "dog funds", alongside offerings from Standard Life and SWIP, after his £1.2bn M&G Dividend fund underperformed its benchmark substanitally.