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ME AND LIAM JR. IN RUBBER BOOTS in the office off the milking room, with the old green filing cabinet, breeding charts on the wall and lists on the wall [...]

Byline: adam LEWIS Editor Fund Strategy Securities Trust of Scotland manager Alan Porter says a stable US housing market, recovery in bank lending and healthy company balance sheets are reasons [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy On his third anniversary, Stewart Cowley, the manager of Old Mutual Select Managed attributes the portfolio's good performance to flexible tactics and some timely [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy The managers of the City Merchants High Yield trust were unfazed by Bestinvest's sell rating on the fund and insist there are excellent opportunities [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy Critics say the planned replacement of total expense ratios with 'ongoing charges' figures will lack transparency, but the AIC says it will make comparisons [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy The high valuation on defensive stocks has persuaded Cazenove Multi-Manager Diversity fund managers Marcus Brookes and Robin McDonald to raise cash as a means [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy Aberdeen has transformed the trust it took over from Bramdean, turning it into a pure private equity fund that its managers expect to profit [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy As IFAs show signs of warming to the appeal of closed-ended funds, experts sound a warning that some trusts might find themselves unable to [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy Gains for both long and short-term performance show investment trusts outpaced open-ended funds, with small caps and UK growth portfolios delivering top results in [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy Market falls last August hit Witan investment trust, wiping out gains from the previous year, but the manager was not spooked to change the [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has seen good returns in the last decade and the fund's manager plans to continue this performance with a [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy Two of the four funds in the Invesco Perpetual Select Trust have undergone changes in strategy. In the global equity asset class, a change [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund StrategyInvestment trusts will have a 'head start' in the supposed level playing field after RDR, says Collins Stewart, but it will be those that meet [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund StrategyMarket volatility exacted its toll on performance of all funds in the IMA Global, Global Bonds and Global Emerging Markets sectors. Only one portfolio bucked [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy IMA Active Managed funds struggled to stay in positive territory over one and three years as events hit most asset classes, although cash and [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy The manager of the Securities Trust of Scotland overhauled the portfolio after its change in mandate, turning a domestic bias into a global one, [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy After a change to its benchmark, the new manager of the British Assets Trust tweaked its asset allocations, which, he says, will give more [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy As property income funds regain favour with investors, the Invista Property Foundation trust aims to strengthen its position with a new manager, Schroder Property [...]

Byline: ADAM LEWIS Editor, Fund Strategy The manager of TR European Growth tightened the small-cap focus, but is not worried by the wider discount, as he says it is only [...]

Byline: Stefanie Eschenbacher , Adam Lewis The African Alliance Group is working on a Ucits version of its flagship Africa Pioneer fund, domiciled in the Cayman Islands. Paul Clark, the [...]

Byline: Nick Rice , Adam Lewis HSBC Global Asset Management has re-jigged its Global Investment Funds (GIF) range, changing fund names, managers, objectives and fees. Any GIF fund managers branded [...]

Byline: Chris Salih , Adam Lewis Britain's economy grew by 0.8% between July and September, beating many economic forecasts. The news follows 1.2 % growth in the second quarter and [...]

Byline: Stefanie Eschenbacher , Adam Lewis Richard Plackett has handed the management of his BlackRock UK Smaller Companies fund to Ralph Cox. Cox has been managing the Au328m fund alongside [...]

Byline: Stefanie Eschenbacher , Adam Lewis Richard Plackett has handed the management of his BlackRock UK Smaller Companies fund to Ralph Cox. Cox has been managing the Au328m fund alongside [...]

Byline: James Smith , Adam Lewis Fund managers are playing down the investment impact of cuts in state subsidies for low-carbon forms of energy. Governments worldwide are reducing spending on [...]

In his book of connected stories, Quebec writer John Lavery concentrates, for the most part, on the myriad trivialities that constitute the lives of police officers and criminals, and ends [...]

Summat Else by Royston Tester (Porcupine's Quill) In these connected stories, narrator Enoch Jones guides the reader through his coming-of-age with a cockeyed charm that makes both the English Black [...]

Venous Hum By Suzette Mayr (Arsenal Pulp Press) In this dark, deft novel, a high school graduating class deals with horrors seldom seen this side of Carrie, though they're clearly [...]

LD: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver By Daniel Francis (Arsenal Pulp Press) On the strength of-his reputation as 'an ordinary man representing ordinary folk,' Louis D. Taylor [...]

I know you are but what am I? by Heather Birrell (Coach House Books) Time and again in this nine-story collection, Birrell weaves patterns of flashbacks, walk-on characters, best-ever similes [...]

Cherry by Chandra Mayor (Conundrum Press) Chandra Mayor's novel, Cherry, is a horror story of the Winnipeg skinhead community, narrated by a young woman perceptive enough to give us its [...]

by David George Taylor (BuschekBooks) Moriah is a collection of four stories by David George Taylor. In 'The Swans,' two young drifters ride the rails with a pair of elderly [...]

by Derek McCormack (ECW) In The Haunted Hillbilly, author Derek McCormack suggests that, rather than simply succumbing to alcoholism at the height of his Opry success, Hank Williams's demise was [...]