Equities

Kames Capital is to waive the performance fee on its £65m UK Equity Absolute Return fund for the rest of the year, and will cut it in half from 2013 onwards.

Frances Hudson, global thematic strategist at Standard Life Investments, on lessons unheeded from the 2008 financial crisis.

Q2 OUTLOOK

MEMORY LANE

OLD ENOUGH

F&C Asset Management has reported £7.2bn of net outflows for 2011, during a tough year for the group as activist investor Edward Bramson seeks to turnaround the firm's fortunes.

Craig Lazzara, senior director of US equities at S&P Indices, explains the truth behind benchmarks and the themes and variations that exist in the fund management industry.

Simon Ellis, managing director of Legal & General Investments, explains why index funds should not be viewed as the poorer relation of their active cousins and why investors are no longer using them to just tap into developed market growth.

GOOD SHAPE?

Richard Brasher, the chief executive of Tesco's UK operations, is set to step down from his role after one of the most difficult trading periods in the supermarket giant's recent history, according to reports.