Capita Asset Services is predicting a record year for UK dividends in 2014, despite a lacklustre period for dividend returns last year.
Old Mutual Global Investors' Richard Buxton has told IFAonline sister title Investment Week his move from Schroders to his new firm is his last in fund management.
Multi-asset managers are finding renewed opportunities in UK government bonds as they try to eke out value for their portfolios at the start of 2014.
Britain's growth rate could reach as high as 4% this year as the recovery accelerates, economists have said.
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has retained an AAA sovereign credit rating for the UK but says there is still a one in three chance of a downgrade next year.
The UK economy has been tipped to breach its pre-crisis peak as early as next year, instead of 2016, as previously forecast, by UK business network the British Chambers of Commerce.
Former BBC economics editor and now J.P. Morgan Asset Management's chief market strategist for the UK and Europe Stephanie Flanders give her run down of what investors can expect in the year ahead.