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TwentyFour Asset Management has hired former Jupiter sales manager Bryan Bushnell for its growing team.

Natixis Global Asset Management has unveiled two multi-factor equity funds run by its French affiliate Seeyond.

Consumer staples have returned to the top of UK equity managers' agenda as later-than-expected rate hikes reignite the debate over the outlook for the sector.

US financials' increasing attraction to income investors makes the US equity income landscape reminiscent of that seen in the 1980s, according to Threadneedle head of US equities Diane Sobin.

Investors are showing increasing willingness to pay for R&D pipelines in biotech, explains AXA Framlington's Linden Thomson.

Schroders' Alex Howe has joined F&C as sales director on its UK wholesale team.

The UK equity market remains range-bound. In 2014, the FTSE 100 started the year at 6,749 and ended the year at 6,566.

Falling oil prices have been a boon to consumers and managers should be exposed to rising discretionary spending, explains Smith & Williamson's Mark Boucher.