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Lazard is planning to merge Lloyd Whitworth and Alan Custis' £80m UK Alpha fund into its smaller UK Omega fund, subject to shareholder approval.

Jupiter Asset Management is at a "crossroads" and its profit growth may be at an artificially high level, according to Franklin Templeton's Paul Spencer.

The mega-cap income payers have been battered recently, so should investors be seeking out the small but beautiful divi-payers? Unicorn's Simon Moon explains why.

Neptune is replacing the outgoing manager of the £66m UK Opportunities fund with its head of UK equities Mark Martin as it continues to restructure its fund range.

'Normal' financial markets are unpredictable, so this 'blind faith' in central banks is odd, argues Paul Stephany, portfolio manager at Newton Investment Management.

The full impact of downward pressure on FTSE stocks is still yet to be felt, says L&GI's Richard Penny, as he highlights the stocks which can buck the bad news.

Are funds built to last or short-term fads?

Equity investors today seem to have only two options: to invest in expensive companies or those with inherent financial risk attached, according to Simon Gergel, manager of the Merchants trust at Allianz Global Investors

Ex-Legal & General director of platforms & policy Danny Wynn has joined Fidelity Worldwide Investment in the newly-created role of head of fund partners, Investment Week can reveal.

Fund groups should focus more attention on the need for active UK equity funds that are overweight large caps, according to Andrew Summers, head of fund research at Investec Wealth & Investment.