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Slowing industrial production is the largest headwind facing Northern Europe in the near term, according to Newton's bond manager Paul Brain.

Some of Europe's biggest fund managers, including Amundi and Threadneedle, are dumping euro assets amid rising fears over a possible Greek exit from the single currency.

Investors have pulled almost $900m out of one of the world's largest gold ETFs in a single day, the biggest one-day outflow since August 2011.

The worse than expected decline in UK GDP announced today is likely to spur the Bank of England into injecting another £50bn into the economy next month, said Henderson's Simon Ward.

The number of new funds being launched into the European market has dropped by half from the peak in 2008 as asset managers struggle through a tough business environment.

Barclays has launched a platform which will allow wealth managers to trade stocks, ETFs and other assets themselves.

Jupiter's joint head of Far Eastern equities, Philip Ehrmann gives his take on the current political environment in China.

Fidelity Worldwide Investment has confirmed John Clougherty is joining as head of UK retail, as Investment Week exclusively revealed yesterday.

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership's (SWIP) head of UK rates Graeme Troy is set to leave the firm on 15 June.

Threadneedle's Quentin Fitzsimmons is set to leave the group to take a break from the industry.