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To focus on strategy for AIMS team

Too early to enter beleaguered sector

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Standard Life Investments UK manager Thomas Moore has said Barclays can transform itself under the watchful eye of interim chief executive John McFarlane.

Former Aviva chief executive Keith Jones has joined the board of Smith & Williamson as a non-executive director.

Graham Mudie has joined Aviva Investors' sales teams from Standard Life Investments, as chief executive Euan Munro continues to recruit from his former company.

Giles Parkinson, who resigned from Artemis earlier this month, has joined Aviva Investors as a global equities fund manager.

Debt-laden network Sesame has been given access to a £45m bailout fund by its parents Aviva and Friends Life.