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Roger Webb, head of credit portfolio management at Aviva Investors, will leave the company in the autumn.

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Twenty years into his career, Neil Bridge says he is still as driven to achieve his objective of making Schroders "… the number one group for the foreseeable future"

A near 30% rally from the lows of early March to the peak on 1st June has been characterised by a fierce debate between investors over cyclicals versus defensives. We feel this misses the point of the rally entirely.

Cornelain Asset Managers has hired Richard Alexander, former director Global Equity dealing at BlackRock Investment Management, as associate director Investment Operations.

F&C Asset Management has appointed Jacob de Wit, head of fixed income, and Richard Wilson, head of equities, to the group's executive committee, following the company's demerger last week.

Threadneedle's Leigh Harrison is moving his portfolio into a broader range of sectors as he believes investment themes will become less clear cut.

Asset management group Neuberger Berman is re-branding its Dublin-domiciled mutual funds business following its employee-led buyout from Lehman Brothers in May.

Barclays Wealth is to reissue the US and UK versions of its Super Tracker investment strategy.

Having spent the past six weeks trading in a tight range of 100 points around 4,400, the UK FTSE 100 has recently fallen back to its end of April levels.