UK Equity Income

Vodafone shares have jumped to the top of the FTSE 100 leaderboard on talk that US peers Verizon and AT&T are working on a $245bn break-up bid for the firm.

UK income investors could be in for a dividend windfall as sterling continues to slide against the dollar, analysts have suggested.

Troy's Trojan Income fund manager Francis Brooke has sold his position in Aberdeen Asset Management after its share price doubled in the space of 12 months.

In a low-rate world, the feverish scramble for yield means the equity income story has been well-flagged to investors in recent years, but are key shares now reaching an unsustainable peak?

Standard Life Investments' Thomas Moore, manager of the £105m UK Equity Income Unconstrained fund, has sold out of UK pharmaceuticals amid fears the sector faces further earnings downgrades this year.

Troy Asset Management is to soft-close Francis Brooke's Trojan Income fund in order to protect performance for existing investors.

The yield of the FTSE 100 will rise from 3.07% to 3.37% this year as FTSE 100 companies increase their dividends by an average of 11%, Banc De Binary has claimed.

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Querns' Stephen Whittaker is backing consumer and financial stocks to outperform in 2013, following an overhaul of his income portfolio last year and the departure of co-manager Phil Roantree.

Jupiter's head of UK equities Anthony Nutt is to hand over his retail portfolios next year ahead of a move to retire from fund management in 2014, Investment Week can reveal.