FTAdviser latest:Investec's Saunders eyes Jupiter Absolute Returns

Story by: John Kenchington, Investment Adviser

Investec's Philip Saunders is conducting due diligence on taking a stake in Philip Gibbs Jupiter Absolute Return fund on his multi-asset capital-protected fund.

  • Time published: 00:01
  • Date published: 15.03.2010
  • Published in: Investments

Himsworth vows to crank up equities performance

Gartmore's Leigh Himsworth has pledged a performance turnaround on the group's UK equity fund range after he revamped the funds' remits.

  • Date published: 15.03.2010

Ignis: have faith in financials

The market is being far too quick to dismiss financial stocks, according to Ignis Asset Management's head of European equities Adrian Darley.

  • Date published: 15.03.2010

Investec manager mulls stake in Jupiter Absolute Return fund

Investec's Philip Saunders is conducting due diligence on taking a stake in Philip Gibbs's new Jupiter Absolute Return fund.

  • Date published: 09.03.2010

SLI rides success of timing

Standard Life Investments' David Cumming has outperformed peers by 54 per cent over just one year after he plunged his fund into bombed-out sectors just two days before the market bottomed.

  • Date published: 08.03.2010

Botham: managers require more skills

Aviva Investors' European equity head John Botham has said many fund managers have been caught by surprise after macroeconomic factors continued to drive markets this year.

  • Date published: 01.03.2010

Henderson's Casson contrary on Greece

Henderson New Star European manager Paul Casson has boosted his Greek exposure despite the crisis in the nation.

  • Date published: 01.03.2010

Investors caught out by macro factors in 2010: Aviva

Aviva Investors' European equity head John Botham has said many fund managers have been caught by surprise after macroeconomic factors continued to drive markets this year.

  • Date published: 24.02.2010

Equity managers anticipate Toyota stock turnaround

Japanese equity managers have given reassurances over their exposure to embattled carmaker Toyota Motor, with some saying they even boosted their positions in the stock to take advantage of "excessive" negative sentiment.

  • Date published: 22.02.2010

Miller attacks 'bad value'

The average fund in the UK All Companies sector is a closet tracker that offers little value for money compared with an exchange-traded fund (ETF), according to new research by Alan Miller, partner at SCM Private.

  • Date published: 22.02.2010

Features

Interview: Paul Jourdan

It's not often you meet a venture capital trust manager who spent his formative years playing violin for the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, even less so one who wrote his Cambridge PhD thesis on the composer Felix Mendelssohn and the rise of the public concert.

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  • Date published: 15.02.2010

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Focus: Investment Trusts - Pickings are far from slim

The tax-free dividends available from VCTs make them an attractive option for higher-rate taxpayers looking to beat chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling’s budget.

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  • Date published: 15.02.2010

Features

Focus: Growth investing

Investors are generally familiar with the concept of style-based approaches to investment. For many, value investing will be the most recognised investment style, its popularity due in part to the high profiles of past and present superstar practitioners, such as Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett, and its intuitively appealing philosophy of finding cheap stocks.

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  • Date published: 18.01.2010

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