Cherry Reynard

Gilts are out of favour but their emerging market equivalents are catching the eye of investors, as are corporate bonds, discovers Cherry Reynard.

Rosemary Banyard is the manager of the Schroder UK Smaller Companies fund. Here are the latest stocks she has bought and sold, and the one she's holding on to.

Can the new breed of low-cost active funds beat the performance of their more expensive bedfellows, asks Cherry Reynard.

Physical and synthetic exchange traded funds may both be passive trackers, but they are very different beasts under the hood, explains Cherry Reynard.

Marina Bond, manager of the Rathbone Recovery fund, tells Cherry Reynard the latest stocks she's bought and sold, and the one she's holding on to.

For those who want a one-stop global investment portfolio, Alliance Trust and Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust may still have a place. But which one to choose?

The gloves are off ahead of Alliance Trust's AGM on 27 April. Activist investor Laxey Partners has criticised the trust's new chairman Karin Forseke for defending the fund's "self-managed" approach.

In the blue corner is the punchy Schroders fund digging for value and in the red Fidelity's gentler beast. Cherry Reynard reports on the bout.

Mark Slater, manager of the MFM Slater Growth, Income and Recovery funds, tells Cherry Reynard the latest stocks he's bought and sold and the one he's holding on to.

James Henderson manages the Lowland Investment Company and the Henderson UK Equity Income fund. Here are the latest stocks he has bought and sold, and the one he's holding on to.