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Investec Asset Management is the latest group to launch a range of clean share classes ahead of the year-end RDR deadline.

Franklin Templeton is launching an Africa fund for veteran investor Mark Mobius, making it the latest fund group to test investor appetite for the world's second-largest continent.

Natalie Kenway asks River and Mercantile how it has endured one of the worst recessions of our times, emerging with rising revenues and record AUM.

Invesco Perpetual is bringing a range of multi-asset, risk-rated funds to the UK run by its Atlanta-based global asset allocation team headed by CIO Scott Wolle.

Standard Life Investments' Harry Nimmo is set to run a significantly overweight position in the UK when his Global Smaller Companies fund launches on 18 January.

Investors could be faced with a plethora of fund charging models post-RDR as well as higher overall costs and ‘premium' prices for a top tier of better performing funds or specialist mandates.

More than 150 UK domiciled funds - equivalent to 12% of the total universe of funds today - have raised annual management fees over the past decade, a new Lipper study has revealed.

Baillie Gifford's James Budden says the RDR is a levelling tool the investment trust sector should welcome.

Premier's new Environmental Power & Water fund is likely to launch with an overweight to Asia. The new fund, which is a conversion of the existing 20m UK Smaller Companies portfolio, launches on 1 November.

Henderson plans to change the investment policy of its £296.7m Managed Distribution fund to allow wider use of derivatives.