News

UK equity income managers, including Artemis' Adrian Frost, are stepping up their quest for the next generation of dividend payers as the London market's leading stocks disappoint.

Investors in some of the UK's worst funds have been urged to dump ten serial underperformers from their portfolios in a study by Chelsea Financial Services.

Frontier markets are less volatile, more diversified and a better bet for dividends than their broader emerging market peers, according to HSBC's Andrew Brudenell.

Hedge fund managers have been increasing their short positions in sterling amid fears the currency is set to depreciate further as investors flock to the euro.

The £1.3bn Witan investment trust, managed by Andrew Bell, has handed an Asia Pacific mandate equivalent to 9% of its portfolio to Matthews Asia.

The wealth arm of Barclays has scrapped plans to charge fund groups an administration fee when their products are recommended for private client portfolios.

UBS Asset Management is to become the latest group to boost its passive fund offering in the UK, as it launches the first product in a new range for retail investors.

Chancellor George Osborne has ordered the Treasury to draw up plans for a mass give-away of RBS shares to taxpayers by the next election in 2015, according to reports.

Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) is merging its global and emerging fixed income arms into a single unit.

Charles Hepworth, investment manager in charge of GAM's discretionary fund management (DFM) offering for UK IFAs launched in November, has revealed his top fund picks for the range.