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Royal Bank of Scotland is facing an £8bn loss for 2013 after announcing an additional £3.1bn of provisions for litigation and mis-selling costs.

Canada's Bank of Montreal (BMO) has agreed a deal to buy F&C for £708m in cash.

Invesco Perpetual's Mark Barnett is to become manager of the £1bn Edinburgh investment trust as of today, taking over from Neil Woodford ahead of the latter's forthcoming move to Oakley Capital.

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F&C shares have jumped by more than 20% after the group said it has received a takeover approach from Canada's Bank of Montreal (BMO).

J.P. Morgan Asset Management is to launch an onshore version of its Luxembourg-domiciled America Equity fund, making the OEIC available to UK investors from 31 January.

Financial advisers are expected to fork out £31.5m in compensation to clients who invested in the CF Arch cru Investment and Diversified funds (Arch cru) and were found to have received unsuitable advice.

Barclays Stockbrokers has revealed its clean pricing structure, introducing an AMC of 0.35% as it becomes the latest platform to undercut Hargreaves Lansdown's headline charges.

Aviva Investors' Kirill Pyshkin is to join Mirabaud Asset Management to run a global equity income product.

Three M&G funds including Tom Dobell's giant Recovery fund have been added to Bestinvest's 'dog list', making up more than half of all assets listed.