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Dixons Carphone co-deputy chair John Allan is to replace Richard Broadbent as Tesco chairman, the supermarket has said.

Neptune Investment Management's Mark Martin has overhauled the £66m UK Opportunities fund since taking over as lead manager, turning it into a higher conviction portfolio with fewer positions.

Six weeks on from its annus horribilis, Tesco continues to split opinion among UK stockpickers.

Investec Asset Management's Simon Brazier has warned investors on the higher volatility likely to be experienced in 2015, pointing to a backdrop similar to the year in which Lehman Brothers collapsed.

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.