UK equity income funds are nearing single stock limits on key holdings, causing concentration risk fears to mount, but which funds are taking the biggest bets?

UK dividend payments hit a new record high in Q2, with PLCs paying out a total of £25.3bn to investors, but slowing profit growth means full-year dividends are expected to drop year-on-year.

Sterling and gilt yields have jumped this morning after the latest Monetary Policy Committee minutes revealed Mark Carney and all other MPC members voted against more QE in July.

Aviva Investors has split its multi-asset solutions portfolio management team into retail and institutional divisions in an effort to provide focused advice to each type of client.

Law firm Eversheds has criticised the proposal by business secretary Vince Cable to introduce a new corporate law to punish directors of failed companies.

Legg Mason has launched an offshore version of its Legg Mason Income Optimiser fund, also to be managed by Regina Borromeo.

Walker Crips is launching what it says is the UK's first regulated bridging finance investment fund for its newly created alternative investments division.

Increasing correlations between assets classes have left "no place to hide" for multi-asset managers as concerns over a tapering of US QE hit home.

The recent sell off in the bond market and growing liquidity issues have forced bond investors to use similar hedging techniques, undermining their effectiveness and causing concerns about how much downside protection funds really have.