LVAM's Mark Page and Laurent Millet are joining Artemis' European equity strategies team in early September.
The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has remained split three ways on interest rates, minutes of its latest meeting show.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn's role as head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) looks increasingly untenable following comments from US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner he "cannot run" the IMF.
Glencore International has closed its books a day early after its initial 530p per share offer garnered strong investor demand.
The Bank of England is right to hold interest rates at record lows of 0.5% as governor Mervyn King takes a long-term view, according to George Osborne.
Fidelity is understood to be among a number of leading fund managers and investors who will vote against Prudential chairman Harvey McGrath's re-election.
The yen has plunged against a basket of currencies after the Bank of Japan said the economy is in a perilous state.
The world's largest search engine is borrowing $3bn (£1.85bn) from the bond market as the returns investors demand from creditworthy companies declines to its lowest since November, the Telegraph reports.
Bryn Jones, fund manager of the £62m Rathbone Ethical Bond fund, shares his top five picks for ethical fixed income.
Former head of high yield at Gartmore, Kam Tugnait, has joined European sub-investment grade credit fund managers Babson Capital Europe as a managing director.