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Ed Harley, head of asset management at the Financial Conduct Authority, has left the regulator to take up a role at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

Whitechurch Securities has swapped Neil Woodford's High Income fund for Mark Barnett's UK Strategic Income offering ahead of the former's departure from Invesco Perpetual.

Yields on ten-year US treasuries could climb as high as 5% as the Federal Reserve brings its quantitative easing programme to an end, according to Old Mutual Global Investors' Stewart Cowley.

Former Apollo Multi Asset Management partner Tom McGrath has returned to the industry with a new venture aimed at raising assets for small fund groups.

Treasury Select Committee (TSC) chairman Andrew Tyrie has called on the industry to help parliament hold the financial services regulator to account to avoid "excessive regulation" that could "create the stability of the graveyard".

ING Investment Management has appointed two new senior portfolio managers to its emerging market debt team.

Last night Incisive Media held its Gold Standard Awards at the House of Commons, recognising those firms in the financial services industry with the highest standards of governance and social responsibility.

Miton's Gervias Williams has been appointed co-manager of Bill Mott's PSigma Income fund as part of a reshuffle which sees Neil Cumming exit the group.

Shares in UK housebuilders have tumbled after the Bank of England said it will end the Funding for Lending (FLS) scheme for mortgages a year early.

The High Court has ordered into liquidation a property investment scheme promoted by former Manchester United footballer Lee Sharpe.