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This week has seen further volatile moves in markets - particularly within fixed income as investors unwind positions in government and emerging debt - while Chinese equities also hit the headlines on fears of a slowdown in the country.

Old Mutual Global Investors has seen inflows of more than £100m into Richard Buxton's UK Alpha fund, ahead of his arrival at the group.

Richard Buxton, who is set to join Old Mutual Global Investors from Schroders next week, has argued there are too many funds in the UK market which are not generating adequate returns.

Our ten most popular stories of this week were something of a mixed bag - readers wanted to know which were the most popular funds of Q1, why equity valuations could be misleading, and who was the latest high profile hire at Ashcourt Rowan.

Three top-performing UK equity funds run by merging fund houses Schroders and Cazenove Capital are close to reaching capacity.

Schroders is considering having two flagship UK equity funds running alongside each other once its £424m acquisition of Cazenove Capital is complete.

Cazenove's Julie Dean will not be running Richard Buxton's assets after the takeover of the company by Schroders, and the firm is still actively looking for his replacement.

As advisers digest last week's revelation that top UK fund manager Richard Buxton is to exit Schroders after more than a decade at the group, attention is now turning to where to invest next.

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