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The FTSE 100 has dropped sharply again this morning as fears over significant falls in the oil price and other macroeconomic issues weighed on stocks.

Robert Mumby has retired from fund management after nine years at Jupiter, handing his funds to Guy de Blonay.

Niall O'Shea, head of responsible investment, Royal London Asset Management

The Investment Management Association (IMA) has rebranded as The Investment Association to reflect its wider remit as an enlarged organisation.

The euro has continued to fall in overnight trading as a stronger dollar and expectations of full-blown quantitative easing weigh on the single currency

Investment Week takes a look at the biggest winners and losers of 2014 across 20 different IMA sectors.

The government will fail to deliver planned spending cuts within the next Parliament and interest rate rises are off the table until summer at least, according to a survey of economists.

Aberdeen Asset Management's CIO and Standard Life Investments' head of global strategy are among those to have been recognised in the 2015 New Year honours list.

The FTSE 100 is set to post a loss of around 2.5% for 2014 after falling back sharply yesterday (30 December) following several days of gains.

This year has been a difficult one for many active funds, but, as ever, a select group of portfolios continue to be backed en masse by buyers looking to deliver outperformance for clients.