UK

The Bank of England's fantasy forecast of a decline in annual CPI inflation to about 1% in early 2011 looks even less credible in the wake of March numbers showing an unexpectedly large rise from 3% to 3.4%.

St. James's Place recorded an 84% surge in unit trust and ISA investments over the first quarter of the year.

Schroders' Richard Buxton remains bullish on British Airways despite losses caused by the volcanic ash crisis and plans to increase exposure to the airline on further weakness.

Child Trust Funds (CTFs) could solve Britain's debt problem if linked with inheritance tax (IHT) as a part of a wider, inter-generational asset strategy, experts say.

Strategic Bond funds were the best sellers amongst retail investors in February as they continued to rotate out of plain vanilla Corporate Bond vehicles.

The latest Legal & General Fundamentals video, exclusive to IFAonline, examines the outlook for investment in UK equities.

Moves by European regulators to provide a standard risk rating for investment funds needs further refining to make them truly effective for consumers, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI) and the Investment Management Association (IMA)....

Ed Dymott, head of UK fund partners at Fidelity International, says the fund distribution industry needs to remember disclosure and transparency are not the same thing.

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Richard Buxton, manager of the Schroders UK Alpha Plus fund, explains his strategy of combining careful stockpicking with top-down thematic views.