As active managers struggle to find value in current volatile markets, investors have continued to flock to passive products.

Managers reveal their best contrarian trades

BlackRock veteran Richard Plackett, former head of the UK Small and Mid Cap equities team and co-manager of the £1.4bn Special Situations fund, is to retire from fund management after a quarter of a century, Professional Adviser sister title Investment...

Multi-asset managers have started reinvesting their high cash positions, with many topping up European exposure as Greece finally reaches a new deal with its creditors.

UK equity managers are the biggest winners in the latest bi-annual rebalancing of FE Trustnet's Crown Ratings, with 51 funds gaining the top accolade of five crowns.

Barclays' chief executive Antony Jenkins is to leave the bank as the board of directors calls for a change in leadership with a "new set of skills".

Sir Hector Sants, former head of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has been appointed new chairman of Julius Baer.

The month of May marked the end of the UK's brief spell of negative inflation, but advisers and investors are being warned to beware the result.

Sebastian Lyon's £2.6bn Troy Trojan fund has been labelled "the biggest disappointment" in Chelsea Financial's biannual RedZone list of underperforming funds.

Aberdeen Asset Management is to partner with pensions consultancy Hymans Robertson for a service which will see it use the firm's technology to target direct investors for the first time.