Canaccord Genuity

A prolonged rally in both equities and bonds has left investors facing a challenge to diversify away from crowded trades in recent months. Investment Week asks fund managers and buyers which trades in particular should be raising the red flags.

Canaccord Genuity has criticised 'complacent' investment trust boards in a new report, suggesting they must modernise if they are to compete effectively in the funds market.

Canaccord Genuity's latest look at which trust boards and managers have invested in their own funds reveals 46 managers now have personal investments in their portfolios worth more than £1m.

ITs in 2014: Narrowing discounts and an income focus

The deep recession in the US and subsequent sluggish growth has led some experts to suggest the market is suffering economic hysteresis - or permanent damage to potential growth and employment, explains Robert Jukes from CGWM.

Ahead of IW's Fund Management Summit, to be held on 23-24 September 2014 in London, here is a preview of the event, with thoughts from one of our speakers.

Investment trust buyers are looking to switch into unloved value trusts after the rally in their growth-orientated peers left many of these looking overvalued.

ON EMS

Liontrust managers Anthony Cross and Julian Fosh have said the ‘dash for trash' that characterised UK equity markets last year may be coming to an end.

THE BIG QUESTION