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HSBC Global Asset Management's Caroline Hitch is reducing exposure to equities in favour of credit in the firm's $8bn World Selection portfolios as she fails to find "compelling" valuations for shares.

Research and ratings group Rayner Spencer Mills Research (RSMR) has launched a range of model portfolios for directly authorised small advisory firms.

JP Morgan's multi-management team has moved money out of equities as it moves from bullish to neutral on risk assets for the first time since launch.

Canaccord Genuity's Lucy Mitchell has joined Smith & Williamson as an associate director tasked with developing its discretionary proposition.

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Aberdeen Asset Management has launched four multi-asset funds for long-term investors following the introduction of pension freedoms this month.

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