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Johan Swahn has joined Skagen Funds as a portfolio manager on its flagship €5.6bn Global fund.

Richard Romer-Lee has made two more appointments to his new consultancy firm Square Mile Investment Research.

Old Mutual Global Investors' Richard Buxton has told Investment Week his move from Schroders to his new firm is his last in fund management.

Majedie Investments is to close its emerging markets boutique and switch assets into the separate Majedie Asset Management (MAM) business.

Dalton Strategic Partnership has extended its Tokyo-based Japanese equities team after hiring Fumio Matsumoto from Japanese asset manager T&D Asset Management.

Multi-asset managers are finding renewed opportunities in UK government bonds as they try to eke out value for their portfolios at the start of 2014.

Britain's growth rate could reach as high as 4% this year as the recovery accelerates, economists have said.

Wealth management giants including Rathbones, Towry and Quilter are said to be looking at a £50m acquisition of Jupiter's private client business, and a sale now could enable the group to pay a special dividend to shareholders, analysts have said.

A crackdown on employers that set up offshore trusts for top earners has started to pay off, helping HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) more than double its takings from investigations into big companies' payroll tax avoidance last year.

Transact has said it will halve both its buy commission and dealing charges from 1 March.