UK

Liontrust Asset Management has appointed Julian Fosh to work alongside Anthony Cross on its UK equity fund management team.

INGENIOUS Asset Management has made its UK Equity fund available to retail investors.

CREDIT Suisse has rebranded Marcus Hankey's £78m UK Growth & Income fund as UK Thematic fund, and given it a growth bias.

SCHRODERS is to launch UK Income Defensive fund, a more defensive version of its existing Income Maximiser vehicle, to be managed by Richard Lloyd.

OCTOPUS Opportunities fund manager, David Crawford, has stressed his fund's unique position in hunting for smaller companies that he says are missed by the larger fund houses.

LAZARD Asset Management is planning to launch a new income fund into the UK retail market, using the firm's World Dividend Equity Strategy.

THE Schroder UK Equity Fund has returned 11.51pc over the last 12 months, compared with 9.31pc from the FTSE All Share, thus achieving its objective of outperforming its benchmark by 2pc.

The F&C Stewardship Income fund rides the line between ethics and growth. Kira Nickerson reports on the impact of this approach on the fund's performance

ROYAL London Asset Management (RLAM) has launched a UK Smaller Companies fund.

BLACKROCK MLIM is overhauling the Merrill Lynch UK Absolute Alpha fund in an attempt to entice private investors.