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BlackRock's head of UK fixed income, Ian Winship, is shorting gilts as yields have hit lower levels than those seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Jupiter is preparing to add a cautious product to John Chatfeild-Roberts' £7bn Merlin range, Investment Week understands.

Billionaire investor George Soros has called on Europe to start a fund to buy Italian and Spanish bonds, or risk the demise of the euro.

The Federal Reserve may have held back from unleashing a third round of quantitative easing as a joint central bank effort from around the globe may be around the corner, according to North Investment Partners' John Husselbee.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management is to incorporate risk-ratings into three of its multi-asset funds ahead of RDR.

Jim O'Neill, the chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), would ditch inflation targeting if he replaced Mervyn King as the Bank of England governor as the measure has been "insufficient" over the past decade.

The FSA has sent letters to IFAs demanding information on their advice around, and dealings with, unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) for retail clients over the last four years.

Scottish ministers could soon have the power to issue their own bonds, chief secretary to the UK Treasury, Danny Alexander, is set to tell the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce today.

Henderson's John Bennett said European equities are in the very late stages of a bear market, providing "once in a generation" opportunities to buy the asset class.

Franklin Templeton's Michael Hasenstab has said there will be no Armageddon in the eurozone, and urged investors to take advantage of short-term market inefficiencies.