Rathbones saw an increase in assets under management to £15bn in the year to December 2010, but profits were hit by a £3.6m FSCS levy.

Jupiter's John Chatfeild-Roberts has introduced energy exposure into his £6bn Merlin multi-manager range to benefit from rising oil prices, driven by political turmoil in the Middle East.

Rob Burnett, Neptune's head of European equities, has taken over the management of the European Income fund, supported by his team, following the departure of Karim Ladha.

Bramdean Asset Management's chief executive Nicola Horlick has launched a new venture investing in private members' clubs.

Fidelity's Sanjeev Shah has reduced his weighting to overseas equities in the £3bn Special Situations fund in favour of domestic large caps.

Tim Gibson is joining Henderson Global Investors as head of property equities for Asia on 1 March.

Elena Shaftan is the head of Jupiter's emerging European team and manager of the £626m Emerging European Opportunities fund with Ingrid Kukuljan. Here she explains her fund positioning, why she does not subscribe to the ‘bigger fool' theory, and why the...

GLG has launched a Ucits III absolute return version of its North American Opportunity portfolio, a Cayman-domiciled hedge fund.

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Fidelity is changing the investment parameters of its £182m Fidelity Global Inflation Linked Bond fund, allowing manager Andy Weir to reduce average duration.