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Robert Howell, manager of the Schroders Alternative Solutions Commodity fund, is leaving the firm, with emerging market chief Geoff Blanning to take over the portfolio.

City Financial is to acquire Guinness family office Iveagh's funds arm in a deal that will see Chris Wyllie move to the boutique fund house, Investment Week can reveal.

Ian Ormiston has added to European construction stocks in his Ignis European Smaller Companies fund in the expectation this area of the market is in line to benefit from a economic recovery.

Ruffer director Jane Tufnell is set to retire from the firm she helped to found twenty years ago, after stepping down from the board.

The European Central Bank will consider quantitative easing among other measures to avoid a long period of low inflation, its president has confirmed.

Brown Shipley has appointed six analysts in a bid to strengthen the investment team's equity and credit coverage.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management has launched a global income fund with the ability to invest in non-traditional asset classes.

Invesco Perpetual's US parent company Invesco saw its shares slide yesterday after the group lost a significant mandate to exiting head of investment Neil Woodford.

Holly Mackay, the founder and MD of platform advice, research and events business The Platforum, is to take a sabbatical later this year, Investment Week can reveal.

M&G's fixed income manager Richard Woolnough was paid £17.5m last year, according to reports, a figure more than double that of the CEO of parent company Prudential.