UK Equity Income

Economic data from US and UK not strong enough

Jamie Clark, co-manager on the Liontrust Macro UK Growth and Macro Equity Income funds, names his favourite transformational stocks in the telecommunications sector.

Standard Life Investments UK manager Thomas Moore has said Barclays can transform itself under the watchful eye of interim chief executive John McFarlane.

Lloyds has announced an interim dividend payment of 0.75p per share in its half year results, but the banking giant said it would also consider special dividends in the future.

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) UK Equity Income manager Richard Black is to leave the group after seven years at the company.

The £346m BlackRock UK Income fund has gained another co-manager with the addition of David Goldman.

Toby Thompson, manager of the Brooks Macdonald Global Equity Income fund, analyses if equity investors are right to be concerned about the concentration of income from only a limited number of mega-cap companies

J.O. Hambro Capital Management's Clive Beagles has opened new positions in wealth managers and increased exposure to certain banks in his £2.9bn UK Equity Income fund.

Schroders has called on the Investment Association to rethink its approach to UK Equity Income funds as Nick Kirrage and Kevin Murphy's Income fund is removed from the sector.