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DOMINION, a Swiss and Channel Islands-based investment manager, has launched a new open-ended vehicle, which it said is the world's first retail fund to comprehensively cover the fashion, luxury goods and services sector.

THE directors of Baronsmead VCT 2 have announced interim results for the 12 months to 31 March 2007, which show growth in the net asset value of the ordinary shares of 7.5pc to 123.27p per share.

PRIVATE equity is now the most popular form of alternative investment, according to a survey from Trustnet.

THE diversification properties of global REIT funds are no better than investing in specialist industrial sector equities such as aerospace, tobacco or beverage companies, according to new research.

A FUND investing solely in UK REITs is a step closer to being launched after four more UK property companies converted to REIT status, property experts say.

Doing the continental: The prospects for the European commercial property investment scene in 2007 are better than for the UK sector, says Brett Robinson of Seven Dials Consulting...

A NEW commercial property fund aimed at investors wanting exposure to the small office unit market has been launched by Assetz Fund Management.

UK listed property has outperformed shares in UK companies over the last twenty years, according to new research from Halifax Financial Services.

Channel hopping: Property markets abroad are gaining ever increasing attention. Just why are the property markets in Europe so potentially profitable for investors, asks Chris Howard, managing director of 4:Property?

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