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Octopus Investments is hoping to raise £25m through Octopus Titan Venture Capital Trust 4, its latest VCT launch.

Neptune has soft launched a new Corporate Bond fund, the boutique's second bond product.

First State has introduced a new income share class to its £3.03bn Asia Pacific Leaders and £767m Asia Pacific funds.

Guy de Blonay will co-manage of the £1.4bn Jupiter Financial Opportunities fund alongside Philip Gibbs from the summer of 2010.

Lazard has appointed its North America chief Kenneth Jacobs as its new group chairman and CEO, succeeding Bruce Wasserstein who passed away last month.

Triodos Renewables is launching a new share issue with the aim of raising up to £7m to invest in energy projects.

Warren Buffett's investment firm Berkshire Hathaway has revealed it owns new stakes in Nestle and Exxon Mobil.

Legg Mason Global Asset Management is renaming all the sub-funds within its Dublin-domiciled range to include the Legg Mason name.

Neptune has appointed former chief executive of Cazenove and JPMorgan Cazenove Robert Pickering as a non-executive director.

Skandia has appointed Cohen & Steers to manage its $300m Reits Global Property Securities fund in place of La Salle Investment Management, which had run the fund since its launch in 2005.