In the latest Conjecture debate, our panellists from Aberdeen Asset Management and Standard & Poor's discussed Global Emerging Markets.

"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."

Patrick Cooper, chief executive and co-founder of Distinction Asset Management, has stepped down from the company, Investment Week understands.

GOSLING'S GROUSE

A fund manager recently told me an adviser asked him to speak to a group of his clients. Nothing unusual in that, you might say. The manager turned up at the venue - a local library outside of London - and expected a modest crowd of 20 to 30 people.

Schroders, Aberdeen and JO Hambro Capital Management were the big winners in the Investment Week Fund Manager of the Year awards last night, with Schroders named Global Group of the Year and Aberdeen winning a number of awards.

Managers to run global and UK mandates at boutique group Eden Financial.

I met a conman the other week - a fully-fledged fraudster. And I will tell you, it is frightening how easy it is for people to get taken in by them.

When the compulsory begging bowl went around the industry to compensate Keydata investors, the industry was rightly indignant.

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