Alternatives
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IA funds record £2.3bn net outflow for 2025
Despite ending the year on a positive note with a £2bn inflow in December
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Are precious metals losing their shine for investors?
Commentators discuss why they have reduced their allocation to gold and silver
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Will the MPC hold? Why economic clouds still offer a silver lining for small caps
Ahead of the next Bank of England meeting, Onward Opportunities manager Laurence Hulse discusses what the UK’s economic backdrop means for small caps
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Life Science REIT to be sold for £150m
British Land has agreed terms for the REIT in a cash-and-shares deal
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Gold hits $5,000 as geopolitics defines global markets
Gold’s fresh high highlights its importance as a ‘strategic portfolio diversifier’ amid a turbulent geopolitical backdrop, commentators say
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Fund manager diary: Mark Brennan
A week in the life of Mark Brennan, manager of the Guinness Global Real Assets fund, week commencing 5 January
Equities
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Building resilience for an unpredictable year
Investors can look forward to another noisy year, writes Darius McDermott
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Fund manager diary: Dale Nicholls
A week in the life of Dale Nicholls, portfolio manager of Fidelity China Special Situations PLC, week commencing 19 January
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Going for gold: Five countries expected to medal this winter
As the Winter Olympics get underway in Milan-Cortina, five managers look at the countries expected to deliver both on and off the slopes
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IA funds record £2.3bn net outflow for 2025
Despite ending the year on a positive note with a £2bn inflow in December
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Will the MPC hold? Why economic clouds still offer a silver lining for small caps
Ahead of the next Bank of England meeting, Onward Opportunities manager Laurence Hulse discusses what the UK’s economic backdrop means for small caps
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Herald investment trust cancels tender offer after Saba opposition
Herald’s board remains in discussions with its largest shareholder over a solution
Fixed Income
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Building resilience for an unpredictable year
Investors can look forward to another noisy year, writes Darius McDermott
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Liontrust’s Milburn to retire
Fixed income capabilities brought into a single team
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IA funds record £2.3bn net outflow for 2025
Despite ending the year on a positive note with a £2bn inflow in December
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Will the MPC hold? Why economic clouds still offer a silver lining for small caps
Ahead of the next Bank of England meeting, Onward Opportunities manager Laurence Hulse discusses what the UK’s economic backdrop means for small caps
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Lazard bolsters credit team with head of leveraged loans and high yield
Gordon McKemie joins from Blackstone Credit and Insurance
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Janus Henderson launches ninth active UCITS ETF
Exposure to US short duration high yield corporate bonds
Investment Trusts
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Going for gold: Five countries expected to medal this winter
As the Winter Olympics get underway in Milan-Cortina, five managers look at the countries expected to deliver both on and off the slopes
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Herald investment trust cancels tender offer after Saba opposition
Herald’s board remains in discussions with its largest shareholder over a solution
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AIC appoints chair as Humphries steps down
Sapna Shah adopts the new role with ‘immediate effect’
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Life Science REIT to be sold for £150m
British Land has agreed terms for the REIT in a cash-and-shares deal
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AIC’s five most-viewed investment trusts of 2025
PA analyses the investment companies garnering the most interest on the AIC’s website in 2025
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RTW Biotech’s Wong: GLP-1s are tackling the ‘largest pharmaceutical event the industry has ever seen’
RTW Biotech manager explains why the biotech sector is a ‘structural turning point’
Multi Asset
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SJP ups UK equities positions and makes EMD move
Wealth manager seeking to adapt to a ‘late-cycle market environment’
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Fund selector outlook: Six themes for 2026
DFMs, multi-asset managers and fund selectors reveal what they are concentrating on for the year ahead
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Evelyn Partners MPS reduces UK exposure in favour of Europe
Evelyn Partners’ MPS team trimmed its holdings in Lindsell Train UK Equity as part of the rebalance
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Morningstar adds to healthcare as sector offers ‘best value and expected returns’
Despite sector underperformance, Mark Preskett points to the sector’s defensiveness and attractive valuations
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H1 2025: A game of two halves for multi-asset managers
How have multi-asset managers negotiated such a volatile start to the year and how they are positioning their portfolios as we move into the second half?
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Shard Capital launches model portfolio range
Risk profiles from Cautious to Steady Growth
ESG
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Fidelity hires stewardship director from Lazard
Based in London, reporting to Flora Wang
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Culture will trump strategy for wealth and asset managers
In an industry being reshaped by fee pressure, operating complexity and AI, strategy alone won’t deliver an edge. Nedgroup’s Apiramy Jeyarajah argues that for wealth and asset managers, culture is the real advantage
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RLAM re-commits to Net Zero Asset Managers initiative
Will adopt a NZAM+ strategy
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Big Issue Invest appoints former Standard Bank CEO as chair
Porter leaves after two years
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Guinness Global Investors launches Global Environment fund
Invests in companies that benefit from rising demand for food, water, climate, waste and land
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HL promotes Rowles to head of ESG
Reporting to Emma Wall










