Alliance Trust has suffered a slowdown in returns in the third quarter which it said was due to its high allocation to US equities.
The US Federal Reserve has yet again kept its bond buying programme unchanged, in a move that signals a less optimistic outlook for US economic growth.
HSBC Global Asset Management has launched the GIF Global Short Duration High Yield Bond fund for recent hire Mary Bowers.
Jupiter's Philip Gibbs has been buying up Australian government bonds for his £233m Second Split trust in the view the sell-off in June was overdone.