UK Equity Income

Miton Group UK equity income manager Bill Mott is to retire from fund management at the end of the year.

Chelverton Asset Management is to launch a small-cap fund in September after expanding its team of fund managers.

The St James's Place UK High Income fund and two other portfolios have become the latest to exit the IMA UK Equity Income sector for failing to meet yield requirements.

UK dividend investors are revising yield expectations downwards after sterling reached its highest level against the US dollar since 2008.

Mark Barnett's Invesco Perpetual Income and UK Strategic Income funds are to exit the IMA UK Equity Income sector in the next few days.

Woodford Investment Management raised £1.6bn for the CF Woodford Equity Income fund during its offer period this month, the company has announced.

A hike in the base rate of as little as 0.25% would have a much greater impact on the disposable incomes of highly indebted consumers, potentially threatening the UK's recovery, Neil Woodford has said.

Kames Capital CEO Martin Davis talks to Anna Fedorova about Scottish independence, rebranding, and the group's plans to diversify away from the fixed income space.

UK equity income funds recorded their best month on record in April as the ongoing demand for income solutions saw them rake in hundreds of millions of pounds.

Global equity income investors saw dividends leap by 31.4% in the first quarter of 2014, buoyed by special payouts, with the underlying increase rising at the fastest rate since 2012.