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Legal & General UK unit trusts top performing over one year
Legal & General UK Alpha Trust is the top performing unit trust over one year in April and, alongside the Legal & General Growth Trust the two funds are first and second in the UK All Companies sector over the last 12 months according to the latest performance figures from Morningstar.
moneysupermarket.com: Preliminary deal on cutting roaming charges
Commenting on the EU and members of the European Parliament reaching a preliminary deal on cutting mobile roaming charges, Rob Barnes, head of mobile phones at moneysupermarket.com, said:
New man Newman at top of Special Situations tables
With the spotlight once again trained on 'special situations' funds, one of the newer names in this specialist fund class has clearly pitched his performance flag at the summit of the performance tables.
JPMAM continues momentum in UK institutional business
JPMorgan Asset Management (JPMAM) has announced that it had won 27 mandates from UK pension plans at year to date 2007, with almost 60% of the assets invested in equity products.
Fixed income funds creating new uncertainties for investors
Fixed income funds in Europe increasingly are adopting trading strategies that are poorly understood by most retail investors and are creating wider disparities of performance, according to Standard & Poor’s Fund Services, the leading provider of qualitative fund management research and ratings.
First State Media leads acquisition of major music copyright catalogue
First State Media Group has today confirmed the acquisition of a major music copyright catalogue comprising substantially all of the music copyright assets originally assembled by DreamWorks Music Publishing LLC.
Blair to Brown = Stocks go down?
Investors have had a long time to digest the forthcoming departure of Tony Blair but, now that the date is nearly upon us, will concerns arise?
Kaketsis voted as No. 1 buy-side 'young gun'
Makis Kaketsis, the fund manager placed at the helm of the appropriately named top performing F&C UK Dynamic Fund less than a year and a half ago, has come first in a poll of City professionals designed to highlight the most talented up-and-coming buy-side talent.
Private equity is preferred alternative investment
The latest poll of Trustnetusers indicates that private equityis the favoured style of ‘alternative’ investment by the investment community.
Winterthur add nine new BGI funds to its Tailored Selection
Winterthur has expanded its Tailored Selection fund range with nine BGI pension funds to provide further choice for advisers and their high net worth (HNW) clients.
Philbin eyes up £1 billion target
The F&C retail fund of funds business edged further towards an eye popping billion pounds of assets under management this week as the combined range broke through the £900 million barrier. F&C’s presence as a market leader in this area has been boosted in recent weeks by the launch of its new LifeStyle fund of funds range.
Newman makes ‘Hanson’ returns
Luke Newman, manager of F&C Special Situations fund, has benefited from an indicative takeover approach for long standing holding Hanson, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of heavy building materials.
The Bank of England should have been bolder
Commenting on the widely anticipated 0.25% rise in UK base rates, leading fund manager Ted Scott of F&C Investments believes that the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) should have gone further in order to stamp out inflationary expectations.
Good start to the year for funds of funds under management
Funds under management at the end of quarter 1 reached £30 billion, up from £29 billion at the end of the previous quarter and an increase of 17% from the same quarter in 2006, according to the Investment Management Association (IMA).
Popularity of ethical funds continues to grow
New money coming into ethical funds for 2007 is set to eclipse last year’s figures, according to analysis of sales data by Fidelity FundsNetwork.