UK Equity Income

James Henderson's UK Equity Income fund has been ejected from the IMA UK Equity Income sector for failing to meet the trade body's sector requirements.

Invesco Perpetual's star manager Neil Woodford has warned that the UK market is likely to see a rise in short-term volatility as the US withdraws monetary support.

Wealth managers are becoming increasingly concerned about allocating towards the Neptune Income fund, amid Hargreaves Lansdown's decision to remove the fund from its Wealth 150 list earlier this week.

The Investment Management Association (IMA) has removed a further two funds from its UK Equity Income sector for undershooting minimum yield requirements over the past three years.

Richard Wilmot is underweight financials and mining stocks in his Newton Higher Income fund on fears about the impact of the underperformance of Chinese and wider Asian markets.

Veteran UK equity income fund manager James Henderson has moved up the market cap spectrum in his £70m Henderson Opportunities trust, buying up positions in Barclays and BP.

Royal London Asset Management's Martin Cholwill is backing wealth managers to outperform in the financial services space as he looks for stocks set to benefit from ‘survivor bias'.

Equity funds regained their position as best-sellers in the UK market in April, according to the latest figures from the Investment Management Association (IMA.

Invesco Perpetual's Neil Woodford has suggested the FTSE All Share's bright start to 2013 could soon be derailed as the rally has not been driven by an improvement in fundamentals.

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