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UK fund sales at highest level in a year
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UK fund sales at highest level in a year

Net retail sales of UK domiciled funds reached £2.1bn in April, the highest level since April last year and well above levels seen over the last nine months.

  • 30 May 2012
RDR share classes: Which fund groups are ready?
  • Investment
RDR share classes: Which fund groups are ready?

Fund providers are preparing for the RDR deadline at the end of the year by launching share classes without commission and platform fees.

  • 19 April 2012
Franklin Templeton closes two funds in overhaul of range
  • Active Managed
Franklin Templeton closes two funds in overhaul of range

Franklin Templeton is to close two of its UK OEICs and merge away two others following a review of its UK domiciled fund range.

  • 18 April 2012
Allianz Global Investors to launch risk-rated fund range
  • Active Managed
Allianz Global Investors to launch risk-rated fund range

Allianz Global Investors is to launch a range of risk-rated multi-asset funds in response to growing demand for "outcome-orientated" solutions.

  • 18 April 2012
A fading light? Advisers debate the passive trend
  • ETFs
A fading light? Advisers debate the passive trend

FADING LIGHT?

  • 12 April 2012
"We are slowly putting risk back on the table"
  • Your profession
"We are slowly putting risk back on the table"

Q2 OUTLOOK

  • 22 March 2012
F&C reports £7.2bn net outflows in 2011
  • Investment General
F&C reports £7.2bn net outflows in 2011

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.

  • 15 March 2012
An index fund for every day of the week
  • Investment
An index fund for every day of the week

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.

  • 15 March 2012
Trusts beat open-ended funds over last decade as RDR pressure builds
  • Active Managed
Trusts beat open-ended funds over last decade as RDR pressure builds

Investment trusts have substantially outperformed unit trusts and OEICs over the past decade, according to research.

  • 24 February 2012
The evolution of the intelligent ETF
  • Active Managed
The evolution of the intelligent ETF

RISE OF THE INTELLIGENT ETF

  • 23 February 2012
Are your clients' funds on Bestinvest's dog list?
  • Active Managed
Are your clients' funds on Bestinvest's dog list?

M&G Investments' Alex Odd has entered Bestinvest's infamous list of "dog funds", alongside offerings from Standard Life and SWIP, after his £1.2bn M&G Dividend fund underperformed its benchmark substanitally.

  • 21 February 2012
Revealed: The best-selling fund groups of 2011
  • Active Managed
Revealed: The best-selling fund groups of 2011

M&G tops both retail sales lists as investors seek out bond funds, while BlackRock's active and passive vehicles also prove popular.

  • 21 February 2012
Guinness launches 'clean fee' share class across fund range
  • RDR
Guinness launches 'clean fee' share class across fund range

Guinness Asset Management has launched a new share class across its fund range, becoming the latest firm to gear up for RDR with the launch of a ‘clean fee' structure.

  • 20 February 2012
Wealth managers: Our top UK equity income funds
  • Equities
Wealth managers: Our top UK equity income funds

INCOME

  • 15 February 2012
What is the future for passive investing?
  • Active Managed
What is the future for passive investing?

Frank Potaczek of Close Brothers Asset Management looks at how passive investing has evolved and asks whether active index tracking is the future.

  • 09 February 2012
IMA: Net retail sales slumped 40% in 2011
  • Balanced Management
IMA: Net retail sales slumped 40% in 2011

Net retail sales slumped nearly 40% last year to their lowest level in three years, according the IMA's annual figures.

  • 03 February 2012
IMA: This 'trading costs' campaign is misguided, and here's why...
  • Active Managed
IMA: This 'trading costs' campaign is misguided, and here's why...

Here's a New Year puzzle for you. Funds A and B have an AMC 1.5%, but fund A's trading costs are lower. So which is better value for money? Which is better value?

  • 27 January 2012
The 20 most consistent funds over three tough years
  • Investment General
The 20 most consistent funds over three tough years

First State's Martin Lau has beaten stars including Invesco Perpetual's Neil Woodford and Neptune's Robin Geffen to see his Greater China Growth fund ranked the most consistent performer over the three years to the end of 2011.

  • 16 January 2012
Equity funds see record outflows as crisis grows
  • Balanced Management
Equity funds see record outflows as crisis grows

Equity funds experienced their highest ever outflows of retail money in November as investors pulled out their cash in droves amid the ongoing eurozone crisis.

  • 09 January 2012
Fund launches fell to decade low in 2011
  • Investment General
Fund launches fell to decade low in 2011

Fund launches reached a decade low last year as groups held back new products in the face of market volatility.

  • 09 January 2012
JPMAM's Henderson steps down from Natural Resources fund
  • Managed solutions
JPMAM's Henderson steps down from Natural Resources fund

Ian Henderson is to step down as manager of the £2bn JPM Natural Resources fund in January 2012, to be replaced by Neil Gregson.

  • 26 October 2011
Jayesh Manek: How I beat everyone during volatile summer
  • Active Managed
Jayesh Manek: How I beat everyone during volatile summer

An asset manager best known for winning a Sunday Times fantasy fund manager competition before establishing his own investment business has outperformed every one of his peers over the last three months, as markets suffered.

  • 13 October 2011
Investec's Saunders: My market outlook
  • Active Managed
Investec's Saunders: My market outlook

Investors can expect substantial returns if market movements in the second half of the year resemble the first, says Philip Saunders, manager, Investec Global Strategic Managed fund.

  • 30 June 2011
Active evolution
  • Active Managed
Active evolution

Maria Merricks investigates the introduction of low-cost actively managed funds.

  • 11 March 2011
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