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Legal & General acquires two West End properties

Legal & General's Linked Pensions Fund has completed the acquisition of two further West End office investments.

Strong fundamentals support European equities in 2007

Presenting to IFAs at the sixth annual Joint Investment Forum, Roger Guy highlighted the reasons why he and Guillaume Rambourg, co-managers of the Gartmore European Selected Opportunities Fund and the Gartmore SICAV Continental European Fund, believe European equities have the potential to perform well in 2007.

Further Gartmore funds added to Standard Life Pensions platform

Standard Life have added a further two Gartmore Funds to their Pensions platform. The additions are the £452m Gartmore Cautious Managed Fund and the £656m Gartmore Corporate Bond Fund.

M&G announces the launch of the M&G Cautious Multi Asset Fund

M&G has announced the launch of the M&G Cautious Multi Asset Fund, a dynamic new multi-asset fund managed by Citywire AAA rated manager David Jane. The fund will be launched in late February 2007, subject to FSA approval.

Standard Life Investments makes 1st direct investment in Polish property market

Standard Life Investments, one of the largest property fund managers in Europe, today announced that it has made its first direct investment in the Polish property market.

FundsNetwork unveils best selling sectors on the platform over 2006

Fidelity FundsNetwork, the UK’s leading investment platform, has revealed the top 10 best selling sectors on the platform for 2006, based on total sales across all available product types, (including ISAs, SIPPS and Onshore Investment Bond wrappers).

Halifax announces 250,000th Child Trust Fund

The Halifax has announced today that newborn baby Jennifer Chapman from Farnham in Surrey is the 250,000th Halifax Child Trust Fund (CTF) customer. She could have £34,820 when she turns 18.

Family Investments welcomes government’s financial education drive

Family Investments welcomes government plans to develop a national financial advice service announced this week by Ed Balls, Economic Secretary to the Treasury.

Quarterly Investment Outlook Q1 2007 from F&C Asset Management

Quarterly Investment Outlook Q1 2007 from F&C Asset Management plc.

Double tops for SLI funds

Standard Life Investments kicked off the New Year by welcoming the news that two of its mutual funds had topped their respective peer groups in 2006.

Business risks facing Technology, Media and Telecoms companies

A new report from F&C Asset Management focuses on the core risks facing technology, media and telecoms (TMT) companies surrounding the issues of Access, Security and Privacy (ASP).

Threadneedle: The outlook for US technology sector – January 2007

Investors have tended to be wary of the technology sector since the ‘dot com’ bust in the early part of this decade.

BM first to break 6% barrier with launch of new fixed rate bond

UK savings provider Birmingham Midshires today announced the launch of a new Best Buy bond with a fixed rate of 6.05% gross/AER.

Morley launches emerging market local currency bond fund

Morley Fund Management via Aviva Fund Services has launched the Aviva Morley Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond Fund targeted at European and UK institutional and retail investors.

Inflation rears its head again

Ted Scott, Manager of the F&C UK Growth & Income Fund, comments: “The rise in the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) to 3% is the highest for 11 years but it did not come as a surprise following the unexpected increase in interest rates last week.