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Schroders' fixed income managers have been adding to US municipal bonds across their portfolios on the view that the sector is ripe for reappraisal by investors.

Managers have been buying in to aerospace companies as firms in the sector begin to see large orders coming from the Middle East.

AJ Bell has introduced a capped annual charge on its new-look D2C platform Youinvest as it unveils its pricing strategy for 2014.

Equity funds in most regions may have enjoyed strong capital growth so far in 2013, but the ongoing hunt for yield means equity income strategies are still sharing the limelight.

Canada Life Investments has launched five risk-rated multi-asset portfolios for the UK retail market.

Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Global Insight, has tipped Chancellor George Osborne to up the UK's GDP growth outlook and reveal a reduction in the deficit next week.

Ed Harley, head of asset management at the Financial Conduct Authority, has left the regulator to take up a role at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

Whitechurch Securities has swapped Neil Woodford's High Income fund for Mark Barnett's UK Strategic Income offering ahead of the former's departure from Invesco Perpetual.

Yields on ten-year US treasuries could climb as high as 5% as the Federal Reserve brings its quantitative easing programme to an end, according to Old Mutual Global Investors' Stewart Cowley.

Former Apollo Multi Asset Management partner Tom McGrath has returned to the industry with a new venture aimed at raising assets for small fund groups.