Aberdeen Asset Management is to join the UK's blue chip index in the FTSE 100's quarterly reshuffle, with Hargreaves Lansdown narrowly avoiding demotion.

In this Q&A Merlin manager and Jupiter CIO John Chatfeild-Roberts explains his thinking on financials and his fears over the impact of quantitative easing.

Daniel Tubbs, manager of the $1.1bn BGF Emerging Markets fund, has left the group to pursue other opportunities.

UK regulators and global banks are discussing an overhaul of interbank lending rates amid a probe into alleged manipulation of the benchmark.

Glencore has given no sign of adjusting the terms of its Xstrata takeover offer as it reports a 7% rise in full-year profit despite numbers slumping in the second half of 2012.

BNY Mellon has launched an Emerging Markets Corporate Debt fund to tap into what it sees as the next major structural development in emerging market investing.

The €1trn in cheap loans provided by the ECB since December is expected to be only the start of a wave of liquidity measures that store up problems for the eurozone.

The British Chambers of Commerce has cut its forecast for UK GDP growth for 2012 and has called for the government to announce a modest fiscal stimulus should public sector borrowing come in under target for 2011/12.

Anthony Nutt and John Hamilton are to step down as co-managers of the £250m Jupiter Distribution fund after a decade of service as the group promotes two rising stars.

A surge in protectionism driven by a persistently weak Chinese renminbi remains a wildcard for the global economy that should not be discounted, according to Jupiter CEO Edward Bonham Carter.