Kames Capital has poached Dan Churchouse from Standard Life Investments to be its new business development manager covering the London discretionary market.

Sebastian Lyon, manager of the Troy Trojan fund, has warned shares in mid- and small-cap stocks are currently ‘priced for perfection', after valuations shot up substantially over the past decade.

Gold ETFs have started seeing inflows for the first time in months, as political turmoil in the Ukraine and weak Chinese data pushed investors into safe havens.

Whitechurch Securities is considering imposing a cap on the size of funds it buys for clients, a move which may see it automatically sell a fund once it hits a set limit.

Andrew Neville, manager of the Allianz Global Small Cap Equity fund, has said the best value stocks across global markets can now be found in Southern Europe, following rallies across most of the globe.

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Richard Romer-Lee's recently launched consultancy firm Square Mile Investment Consulting & Research is set to launch a ratings service and a recommended fund list.

The FTSE 100 index has endured its worst week since June as investors became increasingly nervous ahead of the planned referendum in Crimea due on Sunday.

Alken Asset Management has soft-closed Nicholas Walewski's Absolute Return Europe fund after the strategy experienced significant inflows.

Neil Veitch is rotating his SVM UK Opportunities fund from domestic to international stocks, in the view optimism around the UK recovery has peaked and left sterling looking vulnerable versus the US dollar.