Ignis

The Ignis International China fund has had consistently strong performance over the past three years, and manager Diamond Lee has revealed the five stocks powering it to the top.

Absolute return providers have been forced to respond to capacity questions by changing fund remits or even soft-closing vehicles as flows into the sector leap this year.

Bryan Collings has stepped down as managing partner of boutique Hexam so he can focus more closely on running the group's fund range.

Wealth managers have been shifting assets out of fixed income and into property as the unloved sector comes back onto investors' radar.

Ignis Asset Management is preparing to expand its product range as it reports profits for the first half of the year were unchanged from H1 2012.

Albemarle Street Partners has highlighted seven funds in the IMA Targeted Absolute Return sector which could outperform, according to its recently launched screening tool ‘Alpha Quest'.

Terry Ewing, manager of the Ignis American Growth fund, is moving in to consumer discretionary stocks in anticipation of improvements in the domestic US economy.

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