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Flows into multi-asset products have been growing consistently in recent months, and multi-asset now constitutes 11% of the UK funds market.

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From Japan to the US via Europe and the UK, L&G Investments' multi-managers Tim Gardner and Alan Thein give their views on the global investment landscape.

Baring Asset Management has appointed James Ross to the newly created London-based role of director of investment process.

Wealth managers have been shifting assets out of fixed income and into property as the unloved sector comes back onto investors' radar.

Legal & General Investments has launched a range of five risk targeted multi-asset funds with an AMC of 0.25%, as it looks to benefit from the move by advisers to outsource fund selection.

A boutique wealth manager offering a bespoke private client service is to launch its first retail fund as it seeks to diversify its business.

Brooks Macdonald Asset Management (BMAM) has appointed Lisa Brown as an intermediary sales manager.

Advisers are increasingly turning to blended funds as investment solutions for clients, according to figures for the first half of 2013 from multi-manager Architas.