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News
Aberdeen switches from Europe to America
Aberdeen multi-manager duo Graham Duce and Aidan Kearney have dropped their exposure to Europe across the fund range, citing concerns over the markets and currency.
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Henderson confirms rebrand of New Star funds
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Woodford funds back on top form
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FSA to get tough on risky products
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Bestinvest appoints new chairman and chief executive
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Former Lloyds TSB boss Sir Brian Pitman dies aged 78
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Foreign & Colonial IT hands Japan portfolio back to F&C
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Regulators and ombudsman propose new protection committee
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Aegon reduces AMC on Global Opportunities fund
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Niesr estimates 0.3% British GDP growth
Features
Monumental risk
Greece’s fiscal crisis is only an extreme version of the problem of burgeoning public debt, which threatens to destabilise the eurozone and countries beyond. Tomas Hirst sifts through the fiscal ruins and examines the prospects for recovery.
China builds ‘bullets’, Britain fires blanks
Headlines about a proposed high-speed rail network linking London and Scotland tell a tale of ambitious investment in transport infrastructure. The details tell a different story.
From This Week's Issue
SCAM
The chairman shrugs off the notion that a connection to a convicted insider dealer will affect Scam’s standing in the City, while bemoaning the ever-changing rules pertaining to malpractice.
Debt burden weighs heavy on gilts
Public debt escalates, compounded by structural rather than cyclical weakness, and analysts predict it will overtake GDP, which bodes ill for investors as returns falter and risk rises.
Fund managers diary
Leonard Charlton (Dalton Strategic Partnership) manages the Melchior European Fund as well as the Melchior Selected Trust European Fund. His diary runs from February 8-14.
Enhanced play covers all the bases
Low interest rates fuel demand for income and investors look to enhanced income funds, where the covered call approach can generate target yields of 6-8%–even in a volatile environment.
Strategy Blog
Going for growth
Despite my criticisms of growth scepticism I have never claimed that the mainstream critics are entirely hostile to increasing output.
Fund Blog
Swings and roundabouts
What a difference a year makes. A year ago £ Corporate bond funds were the most popular funds among retail buyers while property funds were still seeing redemptions.
American Blog
Cat and mouse
Cynics frequently complain that highly paid quants in unstoppable investment banks and hedge funds will always manage to stay one or two steps ahead of the regulators.
Collinson
Class acts in land of the falling yen
Japan faces big challenges, such as a rapidly ageing population and a huge fiscal deficit, but it boasts more quality global companies than any other country–and Chris Taylor invests in them.
