UK

Thames River has appointed ex-Fidelity manager Trygve Tøraasen to its European equities team.

The overall economic picture, from the combined newsflow at macro and individual company level, is one of uneasy stability.

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Thames River and Nevsky Capital saw gross inflows in excess of £2.4bn in the seven months to 31 July 2009.

Matterley Asset Management has joined Charles Stanley as the recently-launched boutique looks to continue its expansion plans.

The UK equity market has the potential for continued strong returns despite its recent strength.

Manager James de Uphaugh heads up one quarter of boutique's award-winning fund

Standard Life Investments is launching a UK commercial property trust into the retail market, Investment Week understands.

GLG has appointed Nick Judge, formerly managing director of Merrill Lynch's equities division, to its UK asset management team.

Quantitative easing has been aggressively deployed in the UK and US for some months now. But will the effect be what was hoped?