L&G

After another year of high profile manager moves and retirements, Investment Week looks at ten of this year's biggest exits, what the managers are doing now, and what has happened to their funds.

The ‘curry effect’

A Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) decision to brief a national newspaper on its plans to review long-term insurance contracts - which prompted significant falls in the share prices of several major providers - was "high risk" and inadequate, according...

Legal & General (L&G) is splitting its savings business in two and restructuring other parts of its L&G Assurance Society (LGAS) division ahead of the departure of the arm's chief executive John Pollock next May.

Man's psychological bias against lower yielding companies is creating an anomaly which savvy investors can exploit, explains L&GI's Martin Reeves.

The disparate performance of Pacific funds

The insurance sector has come under the spotlight this week after Friday's revelation Aviva was seeking a merger with Friends Life in a deal worth £5.6bn.

UK property fund managers are being forced to hold above-average levels of cash as money continues to flood into the IMA Property sector.

L&G's asset allocation team predicts the most likely date for an interest rate rise will be May 2015, despite a clash with next year's general election.

L&G UK Alpha trust manager Richard Penny has set a £500m cap for the fund as it rises up the performance tables.