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With the dollar at a five-year high against a basket of currencies, and further strength against sterling predicted, Investment Week asks wealth managers which funds they are using to play the trend.

FCA executive and director of supervision Clive Adamson is to leave the organisation within months, according to reports.

Rob Hudson, currently head of Charles Stanley Direct, is joining Aberdeen Asset Management to develop the group's digital proposition.

Neil Woodford, private equity investor Jon Moulton and former Goldman Sachs Asset Management chair Jim O'Neill are among those to have backed digital bank Atom ahead of its 2015 launch.

F&C director of UK and European equities Peter Lees is to hand over his UK equity fund responsibilities as the group bids to turn around performance, Investment Week can reveal.

The Bank of Russia has taken steps to halt the collapse of the rouble, as the currency continues to hit new record lows against the US dollar and the euro on falling oil prices.

Veteran US bond manager Bill Eigen said he has never been so nervous about fixed income markets during his entire career, which spans more than three decades.

Investment limits for Social Impact Tax Relief are to be trebled from £5m to £15m per company, Chancellor George Osborne announced in the Autumn Statement.

Chancellor George Osborne announced a raft of fiscal changes today in the final Autumn Statement of the current parliament.

The government has said it will introduce seeding relief for property authorised investment funds (PAIFs), allowing such funds to launch without incurring stamp duty.