BlackRock's Daniel Tubbs has increased the £200m Emerging Market fund's exposure to coal companies in the past three months on the view demand for this will soar this winter.

Franklin Templeton has confirmed the Turkish regulator is investigating market manipulation claims against emerging markets guru Mark Mobius.

Axa Investment Managers is launching a sterling-denominated short-duration credit fund.

Smith & Williamson has added euro and dollar share classes to its popular Short-Dated Corporate Bond fund.

To herald structured products as 'win-win' for clients except in the most extreme market conditions is highly misleading, Worldwide Financial Planning's Peter McGahan says.

FundQuest is set to launch a fund of absolute return newcits funds into the UK market in Q1 next year.

Ruffer's chief executive Jonathan Ruffer will take over as chairman of the investment boutique in March when Ian Hay Davison retires from the role.

AXA Framlington's George Luckraft says he should have sold his BP shares following the Deepwater Horizon spill, but is optimistic on the group's prospects following this week's trading statement.

Legal & General Investment Managers has launched an emerging markets tracker fund for Robert Dowling.

Crispin Odey's Insynergy fund will adopt a Ucits structure and be redomiciled in Dublin by the end of the year.