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Lawrence Gosling with head of fixed income Rod Davidson

Former BlueCrest manager Emrah Kagitcibasi has joined Pictet Asset Management's London office as part of its emerging market debt (EMD) team.

The regulator has encouraged people to seek independent financial advice if approached about investing their pension, as it warned of a rise in potential scams ahead of April's pensions freedoms.

Episode 3: Budget 2015 Special

Beini Zhou, portfolio manager of the Matthews Asia Small Companies fund, takes a look at encouraging developments in China's grassroots-level entrepreneurship

Lloyds Banking Group has agreed to sell its shareholding in TSB to Spanish bank Sabadell, in a deal which will value the bank at £1.7bn.

The government has announced a number of changes to the tax it collects from UK-based businesses, including financial advisers.

The government expects to collect an extra £3.1bn from those found to have avoided or evaded tax payments - and those professionals who help them - Chancellor George Osborne said in his Budget speech today.

Kunal Desai, head of Indian equities, Neptune