Henderson

Miton's managing director Gervais Williams is to take over the management of the Henderson Fledgling investment trust he ran for almost a decade at Gartmore, ahead of a planned merger with his £127m Diverse Income trust.

Barclays has questioned the impact of Henderson's 'costly' advertising campaign, which featured former Chelsea manager José Mourinho.

The board of the SVM Global investment trust has appointed Henderson Global Investors as investment manager, after the board opted to drop Colin McLean's firm from the mandate.

Henderson has appointed the former dean of Cass Business School, Richard Gillingwater, as its new chairman.

Henderson has hired a team of US credit specialists with a view to building out its offshore US product range.

Henderson's John Bennett has returned to the much-maligned Irish banking sector for the first time in over six years despite warning the position might make investors 'wince'.

Henderson's Job Curtis, manager of the £838m City of London investment trust, said UK equity income investors are experiencing the best conditions since the 1950s.

Consensus opinions over the strength of the US and Chinese economies should be viewed with suspicion, according to Henderson's John Bennett, who has compared analyst forecasts to "fairy dust".

The ‘great rotation' out of fixed income and into equities is pushing funds' assets towards maximum capacity, which could result in top-performing funds soft-closing in the coming months.

Wealth managers have revealed five lesser-known funds they are backing to outperform peers this year, in an environment where some major equity and bond markets looked stretched.