Woodford Investment Management

As the offer period on Neil Woodford's new fund comes to an end, Investment Week asks what he needs to do to beat the most successful launches ever.

The wait is over

Woodford Investment Management, the new fund group set up by veteran fund manager Neil Woodford, is set to back the flotation of breakdown recovery service the AA.

Invesco Perpetual's co-head of fixed interest Paul Read has said he expects the UK's base rate to rise in the first quarter of next year, in contrast to the forecast of his former colleague Neil Woodford.

Neil Woodford has been handed a mandate on Skandia's WealthSelect range, likely in the region of hundreds of millions of pounds, and the platform will be able to access the manager's 65bps share class.

Neil Woodford is considering opening talks with his former firm Invesco Perpetual about a private multi-billion pound deal to bring across his old stakes in the country's largest stocks, and avoid creating havoc in their share prices.

Hargreaves Lansdown is to transfer more than £400m of multi-manager assets from Mark Barnett's Invesco Perpetual income funds to Neil Woodford's new UK equity income offering.

‘I am more cautious on UK growth than the crowded consensus’

Neil Woodford has said some core UK equity income stocks could be hit by dividend cuts in the near future due to "very stressed" business models.

Cofunds is set to list Neil Woodford's equity income fund next month, but will not offer advisers access to the manager's discounted share class.