Henderson New Star's Guy de Blonay is leaving the group to rejoin Jupiter.

Fidelity will stop actively marketing its long/short FAST Europe fund to new investors, after seeing it grow four-fold over the past year.

GAM has appointed former T. Rowe Price and BlackRock manager Niall Gallagher as the replacement for John Bennett on two long-only European equity funds.

Swip's Rory Hammerson, manager of its Pan-European Equity, Smaller Companies and SRI funds, has departed the group after more than 12 years.

Tiburon Partners will launch its new Ucits III Taiko and Terra funds on 27 October.

Standard Life has received broad agreements with all its top 12 fund partners over new business terms as the platform industry accelerates its re-negotiations with asset managers.

Share, the parent company of broker The Share Centre and asset manager Sharefunds, has taken a 5% stake in the Way Group as part of a commercial tie-up.

Gartmore is being prepared for a stock market flotation which could take place before Christmas, The Times reports.

Large groups in pricing negotiations with Cofunds are likely to agree deals in coming weeks after the platform ditched demands for improved terms on back books of business for many of its ‘top 30' partners, Investment Week understands.

Sterling has leapt to a month high against the euro and dollar after hints from Mervyn King dismissing an increase in QE in November.