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Byline: Gary Styles Strategy, Risk and Economics Director, Hometrack A four-sided 'box' of lender constraints is shaping current business plans and strategies in the industry W e all know the [...]

Byline: gary styles strategy, risk and economics director hometrack Rebalancing the economy and fiscal austerity come at a price as we are likely to see a long-term picture of modest [...]

Byline: adam LEWIS Editor Fund Strategy Securities Trust of Scotland manager Alan Porter says a stable US housing market, recovery in bank lending and healthy company balance sheets are reasons [...]

Byline: BETH BREARLEY Senior staff writer, Fund Strategy The manager of Aberdeen Multi-Manager Balanced Managed took a defensive stance towards global trends in the second quarter. But the portfolio is [...]

Byline: Beth brearley Senior staff writer, Fund Strategy Martin Gray has recycled profits from gilts into managed cash, his largest asset allocation, and is positioning his Miton Special Situations Portfolio [...]

Byline: BETH BREARLEY Senior staff writer, Fund Strategy William Meadon, the new co-manager of JPMorgan's Claverhouse Investment Trust, has cut the number of investments by more than a third since [...]

Byline: BYLINE Tag lineBETH BREARLEY Senior staff writer, Fund Strategy SU 10pt Nimrod Column Standfirst SU 10pt Nimrod Column StandfirstHenderson International Income is adopting a defensive stance and investing in [...]

Byline: BETH BREARLEY Senior staff writer, Fund Strategy Charles Luke keeps the Murray Income Trust performing well by steering a steady course among high-quality, competitive companies with good management teams. [...]

Byline: BETH BREARLEY Senior staff writer, Fund Strategy After its three-year review, the T Bailey fund is aiming to boost its performance by capitalising on the emerging markets' infrastructure and [...]

Byline: BETH BREARLEY Senior staff writer, Fund Strategy Few investors can be more contrarian than Sam Cosh, the manager of the F&C European Assets Trust, who is happy to hold [...]

Byline: BETH BREARLEY Senior staff writer, Fund Strategy The investment advisers on the Qatar Investment Fund are tapping into the country's strong growth prospects by investing heavily in the banking [...]

Byline: BETH BREARLEY Senior staff writer, Fund Strategy David Smith at Hargreaves Lansdown explains why he has has been stripping the HL Multi-Manager Equity & Bond Trust of market neutral [...]

Byline: BETH BREARLEY Senior staff writer, Fund Strategy For the first time in its 16-year history Renn Universal Growth has switched from being a net borrower to a net cash [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy On his third anniversary, Stewart Cowley, the manager of Old Mutual Select Managed attributes the portfolio's good performance to flexible tactics and some timely [...]

Byline: BETH BREARLEY Senior staff writer, Fund Strategy Uncertainty grips the Middle East but the manager of BlackRock Frontiers takes a five-year view and says that all the regions he [...]

Byline: BETH BREARLEY Senior writer, Fund Strategy The manager of Fidelity MultiManager Growth admits to being unadventurous, but a well-timed switch from an American equity fund to a tracker boosted [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy The managers of the City Merchants High Yield trust were unfazed by Bestinvest's sell rating on the fund and insist there are excellent opportunities [...]

Byline: BETH BREARLEY Senior writer, Fund Strategy Reinstating the dividend cover was the first job for Phil Doel, who took over as trust manager eight months ago. Targeting global high [...]

Byline: BETH BREARLEY Senior writer, Fund Strategy Thomas Moore has begun a 'gradual migration' of the Standard Life Equity Income trust from FTSE 100 companies towards smaller-cap stocks, where he [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy Critics say the planned replacement of total expense ratios with 'ongoing charges' figures will lack transparency, but the AIC says it will make comparisons [...]

Byline: TOMAS HIRST Features editor, Fund Strategy Strong performances in property have prompted investors to consider the asset class, particularly the commercial and residential British markets, which are well regulated [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy The high valuation on defensive stocks has persuaded Cazenove Multi-Manager Diversity fund managers Marcus Brookes and Robin McDonald to raise cash as a means [...]

Byline: Andrew Baddeley-Chappell head of mortgage strategy & policy Nationwide With the economy struggling to grow and continued buffeting of the banking system, it is worth reflecting again on the [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy Aberdeen has transformed the trust it took over from Bramdean, turning it into a pure private equity fund that its managers expect to profit [...]

Byline: BETH BREARLEY Senior staff writer, Fund Strategy John Husselbee, the manager of the City Financial MultiManager Growth fund, pursues growth with a hefty bias to emerging markets and good-quality [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy As IFAs show signs of warming to the appeal of closed-ended funds, experts sound a warning that some trusts might find themselves unable to [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy Gains for both long and short-term performance show investment trusts outpaced open-ended funds, with small caps and UK growth portfolios delivering top results in [...]

Byline: TOMAS HIRST Features editor, Fund Strategy Absolute Insight aims to provide positive returns over 12-month rolling periods, a strategy that has showed its strength in an ability to preserve [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy Market falls last August hit Witan investment trust, wiping out gains from the previous year, but the manager was not spooked to change the [...]

Byline: SHAUN CUMMING Staff writer, Fund Strategy Remarks about Alliance Trust by a Winterflood research head were unfair and amounted to a 'glass half empty' view, says Evan Bruce-Gardyne, the [...]

Byline: BETH BREARLEY Senior writer, Fund Strategy The manager of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies transformed the trust with a three-pronged strategy, central to which is an adherence to highly selective [...]

Byline: SHAUN CUMMING Staff writer, Fund Strategy Four large holdings in the HSBC Income Fund of Funds are core HSBC portfolios, including its flagship MultiAlpha Sterling Bond, whose underlying performance [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has seen good returns in the last decade and the fund's manager plans to continue this performance with a [...]

Byline: SHAUN CUMMING Staff writer, Fund Strategy The Architas MM Balanced fund had a difficult year in 2011 as it was hit by the Greece fallout and correlations between assets [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy Two of the four funds in the Invesco Perpetual Select Trust have undergone changes in strategy. In the global equity asset class, a change [...]

Byline: SHAUN CUMMING Staff writer, Fund StrategyThe managers of Cazenove Multi-Manager Diversity Tactical embraced a risker strategy by rotating allocations from a defensive position, which propelled the fund to the [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund StrategyInvestment trusts will have a 'head start' in the supposed level playing field after RDR, says Collins Stewart, but it will be those that meet [...]

Byline: SHAUN CUMMING Staff writer, Fund StrategyThe managers of Neuberger Berman Distressed Debt favour companies that are underpinned by significant assets, such as utilities and healthcare facilities, and the results [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund StrategyMarket volatility exacted its toll on performance of all funds in the IMA Global, Global Bonds and Global Emerging Markets sectors. Only one portfolio bucked [...]

Byline: SHAUN CUMMING Staff writer, Fund Strategy Small-cap holdings in the Henderson Opportunities Trust have taken a battering. But the fund's manager holds to his conviction that smaller industrial and [...]

Byline: SHAUN CUMMING Staff writer, Fund Strategy While holding the big multinationals that would be expected in a fund aiming for global income, the Brunner trust also seeks out less [...]

Byline: jason berry head of distribution and strategy safe&Secure Change is something advisers have had to get used to in recent years. From the introduction of regulation in 2001 to [...]

Byline: TOMAS HIRST Features editor, Fund Strategy Europe's credit problems have led to a drop-off in mergers and acquisitions. The Standard Life European Private Equity trust is hoping policymakers' decisions [...]

Byline: Beth Brearley Senior writer, Fund Strategy Volatile markets and uncertainty about the global economy combine to aggravate the quest for stable investments, prompting the top performers to eschew risk [...]

Byline: JAMES SMITH Contributor, Fund Strategy Market conditions hit Polar Capital Technology last year, but the manager is sanguine about the enduring potential of technological innovation, despite a portfolio bias [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy IMA Active Managed funds struggled to stay in positive territory over one and three years as events hit most asset classes, although cash and [...]

Byline: SHAUN CUMMING Staff writer, Fund Strategy The Merchants Trust shares the same long history as a globally recognised drink and aims to emulate its consistency as a product by [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy The manager of the Securities Trust of Scotland overhauled the portfolio after its change in mandate, turning a domestic bias into a global one, [...]