What did you miss? Our ten most read stories of the week

With true alpha proving ever harder to come by, it is no surprise that articles highlighting some of the top performers of recent years proved among the most popular of this week's stories.

Readers were eager to discover which funds have produced 100%+ returns over the past five years, as well as some potential absolute return outperformers. Elsewhere, some recurring industry trends continued to stand out. Figures from Lipper showed fund merger and consolidation efforts across Europe rose again in Q2, and Henderson's latest move to rationalise its own fund range attracted interest from IW readers this week. Increased consolidation was long predicted by some to be a major consequence of RDR, and there are signs that trend is having an impact at a corporate level, too: ...