Jupiter financials specialists Guy de Blonay and Philip Gibbs have placed an order for shares in the giant AIA share offering.
Legg Mason veteran Bill Miller, the renowned manager who beat the S&P 500 for 15 consecutive years, believes US equity markets could climb by as much as 20% over the next year.
Goldman Sachs could repay a $5bn preferred stock investment from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, which helped the bank negotiate through the 2008 financial crisis.
The Chinese economy expanded by 9.6% in the third quarter, a slight drop from 10% in the previous period.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has added a sterling-hedged share class to its £122m Europe Dynamic Ex-UK fund.
Bank shares in the US dived overnight after a group of investors united to try force Bank of America to repurchase soured mortgages packaged into $47bn of bonds.