Omnis Investments, the joint venture between Openwork and fund manager Octopus, has launched a new multi-asset vehicle offering downside protection.

"Fantastic" and a "big surprise" is how multi-managers and advisers are describing the return to running money of Fidelity's iconic fund manager Anthony Bolton. But some offer a word of warning...

Henderson has earmarked April for the start of its fund rationalisation programme.

Investors in green ISAs would be the first to benefit from further rises in the tax-free savings limit under a Tory Government, says shadow chancellor George Osborne.

Jupiter is offering investors in Philip Gibbs' Financial Opportunities fund free switching into one or both of the manager's new Ucits III funds, which will launch ahead of schedule on 14 December.

Neptune has soft launched a new Corporate Bond fund, the boutique's second bond product.

Guy de Blonay will co-manage of the £1.4bn Jupiter Financial Opportunities fund alongside Philip Gibbs from the summer of 2010.

Lazard has appointed its North America chief Kenneth Jacobs as its new group chairman and CEO, succeeding Bruce Wasserstein who passed away last month.

Walker Crips Asset Managers (WCAM) has broken through the £500m assets under management barrier for the first time in its history.

Neptune's Felix Wintle has reduced the number of holdings in his US Opportunities fund to avoid diluting returns in the coming months.