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Keith Skeoch calls fund management a "simple business" about people, technology and change. If you can mix the three together properly, the result is strong and consistent investment performance

Shares in Gartmore fell almost 4% on Monday amid continuing speculation about links between star fund manager Roger Guy and a broker caught up in a FSA investigation into insider trading.

Standard Life Investments' Property Income Trust plans to grow its dividends by 10% this year after buying £21m of property in 2009.

SLI is to buy 75.1% stake in fund of hedge funds manager Aida Capital.

SLI's Gordon Humphries says the UK stock market has not been suffering in line with the UK economy in recent weeks and one of the key drivers of this dislocation is the massive overseas exposure of many UK-listed companies

The optimistic outlook for global emerging markets equities is being overplayed, Standard Life Investments believes.