Insynergy

GOSLING'S GROUSE

INSYNERGY Investment Management is shutting down its fund range just four years after setting up, as pressure grows in the industry for competitiveness on fees ahead of RDR.

Brett Williams, the former head of platforms Cofunds and Skandia, has launched a private equity firm with targets including financial services groups.

We ask fund managers for their top stocks or sector picks for 2012.

Ashcourt Rowan has appointed Jim Roberts, founder of Skandia Investment Management, to the board as a non-executive director.

Noel O'Halloran, head of the team that manages the Insynergy New World Equity Income fund, is anticipating interest rate cuts in major emerging markets as the economic cycle begins to turn.

Brett Williams, the former head of both the Skandia and Cofunds platforms, has joined the board of boutique fund house Insynergy Investment Management as a non-executive director.

ON ASIA

Crispin Odey, the founder of Odey Asset Management, is buying UK banks in the view increased capital requirements will boost profit margins.

Hannah Smith checks in with Spike Hughes, Insynergy founder, three years after the group's inception