Equities

Mixed fortunes: Which fund groups soared in H1?

NEST's fresh approach to the retirement 'glidepath'

Financial markets are "ripe for major decline" next year, according to a fund manager who forecast the dotcom bubble and 2008's global credit crisis.

Friends Life is planning to transfer £24bn worth of segregated mandates from AXA Investment Managers to Aviva Investors, following its takeover by the latter's parent company at the end of last year.

Standard Life Investments' Global Absolute Return Strategies fund has suffered its first quarterly loss since mid-2013 in the three months to 30 June after it was caught up in the market volatility seen in the second quarter.

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What were the top ten bestselling pension funds in June?

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...

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.

Why it's real (and can play havoc with portfolios)