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CIO INTERVIEW

Mike Pinggera, the head of Insight's multi-asset group, has added Axa's US Short Duration High Yield fund across the firm's range of portfolios.

Alliance Trust Asset Management is renaming its two Premier-branded funds as the final step towards bringing the funds in house.

Majedie Asset Management's Adam Parker is standing by a weighting in miners almost double the FTSE All Share despite Australia's proposed supertax on miners' profits hitting the sector.

Octopus is planning to add a new product to its IM Octopus multi-manager fund range in the autumn.

GAM is preparing to soft-close two of its most recently launched funds, Star Global Rates and Star Discretionary FX.

Quality Capital Management (QCM) is pushing into the retail market with the launch of a Ucits III version of its managed futures hedge fund.

Investment Week Conjecture

Japan's Nikkei 225 plunged by the most in 13 months today as global markets continue to be spooked by concerns Greece's debt crisis could spill over into Europe.

The proposed new tax on ‘super-profits' generated by Australian mining companies has seen the mining sector fall heavily again today.