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Lawrence Gosling talks to James de Sausmarez, director and head of investment trusts at Henderson Global Investors, about the advantages and disadvantages of using investment trusts in a client's portfolio

Ed Morse, head of investment trust business development at the F&C Group, provides all the tools you need to invest in these products.

Simon Gergel, director at RCM, is the portfolio manager of the Merchants Trust plc. He talks to Jane Wallace about the trust's objectives and performance.

Fitch Ratings, the US fund rating service, is to launch a fund rating service covering UK funds as part of a new offering aimed at professional investors.

Parmenion has created a range of seven risk-graded multi-asset funds in collaboration with Frontier Investment Management.

Aviva has boosted its UK profits by 21%, led by higher sales in the life and pensions business.

Almost half of financial advisers expect the RDR to result in more capital being allocated to ‘star' fund managers, but its effect on other areas of product selection will be more muted, new research suggests.

Boutique asset manager Evercore Pan-Asset has completed its risk-rated fund range with the launch of the PanDynamic Cautious Balanced and Cautious Growth portfolios.

Share trading in Vantis, the parent company of IFA Vantis Financial Management, has been suspended after the group admitted it may not have sufficient funding to continue to trade on a going concern basis.

Investment advisers have hailed the announcement Anthony Bolton's Fidelity China Special Situations fund had raised £460m from its initial public offering as "a bloody good result".