Mark Whitehead has left Sarasin & Partners to lead Martin Currie's rejigged equity income team.

Nick Train and Michael Lindsell have added the first new stock to their global or UK portfolios since 2012 after buying in to PepsiCo.

Investment trust sales on adviser platforms reached a record high in the first quarter of 2015.

The government is to move a step closer to selling its stake in RBS, with Chancellor George Osborne set to lay out plans for its privatisation in a speech next week.

Sanditon has launched a new UK fund for Julie Dean, nine months after she left Schroders to join the firm.

Royal London Asset Management's Eric Holt has said investment ideas outside the mainstream have helped performance on his £1bn fund despite a liquidity squeeze in bond markets.

Henderson's Richard McNamara has joined GAM as its new chief financial officer.

Bill McQuaker, head of Henderson's multi-manager team, has moved into more cyclical equities in the view outperforming defensives now look vulnerable to a correction.

As much as £400bn could be held in 'dinosaur' funds, according to Hargreaves Lansdown, as investor inertia sees cash left languishing in stagnant products.

Bill Gross has admitted failing to successfully implement one of the best calls of his career in his own portfolio earlier this year.