Winterflood Investment Trusts has removed the Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (Temit) from its recommend list of funds until the future direction of Franklin Templeton’s emerging markets team becomes clearer.
Skerritts has launched what it claims to be the first ‘careful’ growth fund available to UK investors under the Esprit brand name.
Days after Capita saw its shares plummet more than 40%, Neil Woodford has said he will not abandon his holdings in the business process outsourcing firm, even though “it has been a poor investment”.
FE’s model portfolio service (MPS), FE Invest, has passed through the £1bn assets under management mark, a little under three years since its launch in March 2015.
AJ Bell has lowered the annual management charge (AMC) on its managed portfolio service, as it moves toward a new in-house strategic asset allocation approach.
Aberdeen Standard Investments and Fidelity have been named and shamed as the worst performing groups in Bestinvest’s bi-annual Spot the Dog report.
Fulcrum Asset Management has announced the launch of a multi-asset income fund that aims to generate yield above the Bank of England base rates.
Aberdeen Standard Investments has teamed up with the social investment arm of The Big Issue to launch a UK impact fund, focused on sustainable employment opportunities.
More than half of the complaints around self-invested personal pension schemes (Sipps) passed to a financial ombudsman were upheld during the three months to 31 December 2017, making it one of most upheld areas of complaint.
BlackRock has launched a fixed-term high yield bond fund, which primarily invests in US dollar denominated high corporate bonds with five-year maturities.
European investors increased their risk appetite in 2017, recording high inflows into pure equity funds compared with outflows in the previous year, helped by a big rush into passive equity funds, according to a Thompson Reuters Lipper report.
Kevin Murphy and Nick Kirrage’s Schroder Income fund has seen the largest negative move in Sanlam UK’s biannual Income Study.
