News

Killik & Co's Ben McKeown has joined Hargreave Hale as an investment manager.

UK consumer price inflation assumed its downwards trajectory once more in July following a sharp spike the previous month.

Global markets have jumped and oil has hit a 14-month low as geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine show signs of abating.

Invesco Perpetual's Global Targeted Returns fund has pulled ahead of its main competitor in its first year of existence, prompting fund buyers to reconsider their options in the absolute return space.

Mike Felton, manager of the £724m M&G UK Growth fund, is finding some of the best value investment opportunities in the resources sector, saying most of the UK market looks overvalued.

Wealth managers report their clients are clamouring to take on more risk in portfolios, even as markets retreat from record highs.

Global dividends jumped 11.7% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2014, according to Henderson's global dividend index.

Prudential is planning to move into the platform space as part of a drive to diversify its business, the company has told analysts.

Investors are turning to US dollar-denominated assets in anticipation of further sterling weakness as the referendum on Scottish independence nears.

Newly-created position