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Artemis Investment Management co-founder John Dodd has backed financier Nathan Rothschild in his boardroom battle over coal miner Bumi.

The £1.3bn Witan Investment trust has moved to quarterly dividend payments after announcing a 10% rise in payouts for 2012.

Psigma Investment Management has teamed up with TwentyFour Asset Management to seed a new fund for its clients - the TwentyFour Asset Backed Income fund.

Dawn Kendall has left her role as senior fund manager at multi-manager Architas, Investment Week can reveal.

Schroders edged back into the top ten asset managers by fund sales in Q4 as investors showed renewed interest equities, the latest Pridham Report has revealed.

Duncan Owen, head of property funds at Schroders, provides an overview of the current UK property market and suggests how to make portfolios more liquid.

Jupiter has launched the Merlin Real Return fund for Algy Smith-Maxwell as it shuts the manager's Jupiter Equity fund.

Berkeley Burke SIPP Administration has revealed it has stopped accepting overseas property into its self-invested personal pension (SIPP).

Kuber Ventures has unveiled a six strong line-up of EIS fund managers, two months on from launching the first ever EIS platform.

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