Old Mutual Wealth platform marketing manager Mike Barrett is to join the lang cat consultancy as a consulting director.
Fund managers reveal currency plays
Old Mutual Wealth has hired Openwork's chief executive Mary-Anne McIntyre as chief distribution officer.
Levels of liquidity in the UK mid and small-cap space are again under scrutiny following Schroders' decision to overhaul two funds to guard against the problem.
The Investment Association's plans to reorganise the Unclassified sector may lead to advisers reaching "dubious conclusions" on funds, according to Old Mutual Global Investors' John Ventre.
The potential sales of Transact and Seven Investment Management (7IM), as well as increased scrutiny from the regulator, have prompted advisers to start probing platforms on their exit strategies.
Launched in a blaze of publicity last February, Old Mutual Wealth (OMW) set out its WealthSelect proposition as a rival to traditional discretionary fund management services.
Old Mutual Global Investors has more than doubled its adjusted operating profit in 2014, while assets under management jumped 31%.
Old Mutual Global Investors has reviewed its governance and voting policies in a bid to end UK executive pay-offs that it says are "a reward for failure".
China fund managers are preparing for ‘controversial' changes to the benchmark index, which could also prompt adjustments to Investment Association definitions.