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Investors piled into multi-asset funds in the first half of the year, with Baillie Gifford Monthly Income and Orbis Global Balanced taking in the most new cash.

Jim Leaviss, the former chief investment officer for fixed income at M&G and one of the UK fund industry's most respected bond investors, has died aged 55.

Investors who bought into global emerging market (GEM) funds last year have mostly chosen true gems, judging by their returns in the first half of 2026.

UK companies paid a record £35.3bn in dividends in the second quarter of 2026, according to Computershare's latest Dividend Monitor.

A bumper week of quarterly updates from some of the US technology giants produced a mixed picture, with companies such as Apple showing that the AI rocketship might be starting to sputter.

Semiconductor stocks have driven much of the return in US and global equity portfolios over the past year and there has been little way of avoiding them for Cormac Weldon, manager of Artemis US Select.

Looked at in a vacuum, the US market has been resilient and reliable for investors over the past year.

Fund-research agency FundCalibre has awarded five new Elite Ratings and added one strategy to its Elite Radar at its latest investment committee meeting.

Investors have had to endure two geopolitical shocks in the space of a year, with US tariffs and conflict in the Middle East causing an amount of turbulence that normally would send them running for cover.