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Standard Life Investments has become the latest big player to enter the emerging market income space, launching a GEM Income fund for analyst Mark Vincent.

Investec is to merge away its European fund due to its small size.

Schroders has reached an agreement to acquire US investment grade fixed income manager STW Fixed Income Management.

The IMA expects to announce the results of its Absolute Return sector review by the end of February.

Dalton Strategic Partnership's Peter Kaye is to join Fidelity to run its £1bn American fund, as current manager Aris Vatis leaves the group.

irms who advised on investments in the CF Arch Cru Investment and Diversified Funds must contact all their clients asking if they want their case reviewed to determine whether they were mis-sold the funds and may be eligible for redress.

A number of high profile UK equity income funds are at risk of being ejected from the Investment Management Association (IMA)'s UK Equity Income peer group next July, when a long-running review of the sector ends.

The £1.2bn Witan investment trust has appointed UK-based hedge fund specialist Lansdowne Partners to manage a global equity portfolio.

Senior MPs want to call Hector Sants, the former chief executive of the FSA, before the banking standards commission to explain how he will overhaul Barclays' troubled culture.

A convincing election win by Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party(LDP) boosted Japanese equities and caused the yen to weaken.