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A recovery in UK commercial property is not in store until at least next year, according to Reita's latest quarterly 'property investment perspective.'

Only one in 10 retirees believe equity in their home should be for children to inherit, according to research from Saga Equity Release Service.

Baring Asset Management is to follow the likes of Eclectica and Schroders in launching its own specialist agriculture fund.

STELLAR Asset Management is coming to market with a specialist fund looking to exploit opportunities emerging from Eastern Europe.

GLG could lose up to $4.3bn (£2.2bn) of its total $24.6bn funds under management as a result of the impending departure of star hedge fund manager Greg Coffey, The Telegraph reports.

INVESTEC Asset Management has launched a UCITS III enhanced commodity and resource equity fund.

BARCLAYS Wealth has rolled out its first commodity investment, broadly based on the S&P GSCI index.

Barclays Wealth is hoping to correct the retail investor's "materially underweight" exposure to commodities with a new protected investment suite.

EUROPEAN property stocks recovered from their year-end lows in 2007 while investor confidence in emerging markets' property finally stalled during Q1 2008, according to the latest global property and REIT report from Standard & Poor's.

DEUTSCHE Bank has become the first company to list two ETFs linked to money market rates on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).