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Peter Rutter has joined J O Hambro Investment Management (JOHIM)'s global equities team to work alongside two of his former Deutsche colleagues.

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The FTSE 100 has dropped 0.8% this morning as investors get their first opportunity to act on a disappointing US jobs report on Friday.

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The government is assessing new types of pension scheme designed to even out the risks between employer and employee following the closure of many final salary pensions by private firms.

Standard Life Investments and other major shareholders in Barclays are understood to be preparing to vote against CEO Bob Diamond's pay package after the award of a tax-related lump sum.

The Chancellor has expressed his "shock" that some of the country's wealthiest people are able to organise their finances so they pay "virtually no" income tax.

Victoria Harling has joined Investec Asset Management to co-manage its Emerging Markets Corporate Debt fund alongside Peter Eerdmans.

Economists have suggested scrapping bank holidays in the UK in order to boost the country's sturggling economy by as much as £19bn a year.

The UK has just managed to avoid a technical recession, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), but output is unlikely to reach 2008 peak levels again until 2014.