Special Situations

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Wandering past my bookshelves recently, one of my favourite business books caught my eye.

Launched 16 funds to UK earlier this year

Including £1.2bn Special Sits fund

Two launches planned for Q1 2016

Neptune has promoted Charlie Parker to head of distribution, just over a year after the former journalist joined the fund house.

Three-year return drivers

Anthony Cross and Julian Fosh, Liontrust

BlackRock is to launch an Asia Special Situations fund for Andrew Swan and Emily Dong, after bringing its first Asian equities fund to the UK market last summer.

Richard Plackett has bought back into UK banks for the first time since the financial crisis in his BlackRock UK Special Situations fund as the sector begins to show signs of improvement.