Fund boutique Ruffer has always prided itself on making investments that go against the herd, boldly marketing its approach as “deliberately different”. But its contrarian stance has left the investment house delivering such poor returns over the past two years […]
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s largest wealth managers are selling their holdings in investment trusts, leaving the £274bn industry exposed to more opportunistic
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financial services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The government is looking to block HM Revenue & Customs’ plans to apply VAT to UK investment fund services, following
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK asset manager Abrdn has rebranded itself as Aberdeen after it was widely ridiculed for removing most of the vowels
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. BP plans to hire two new directors to help it pivot back to oil and gas, as its chair Helge
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Big London-listed companies are pushing to capitalise on a “change in tone” from investors by boosting their top executives’ pay
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Former Jupiter star fund manager Ben Whitmore has launched the first fund for investors under his new Brickwood brand, months
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The chief executive of Hargreaves Lansdown, the UK’s largest retail investment site, has hit out against calls for the government
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Early February, and in the ballroom of the Sheraton Grand hotel in Mayfair, London, Boaz Weinstein is adamant his assault on the UK’s £274bn investment trust industry is only just getting started. The US-based hedge fund activist had initially hoped
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The amount of UK investors’ money stuck in poorly performing funds has jumped by more than a quarter over the past six months, according to new research by wealth manager Bestinvest. The level of wealth held in so-called “dog” funds
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