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Threadneedle's Henry Stipp is to take over management of Threadneedle's £742m Emerging Market Bond fund following the departure of Richard House.

THE BIG QUESTION

Standard Life Investments has hired former Threadneedle EMD head Richard House to lead its drive into the emerging market debt space.

The results of last December's stress tests have prompted Threadneedle's Cormac Weldon to move to an overweight in financials as he calls the end of the banking crisis.

Threadneedle is reorganising its fixed income department with the creation of a global macroeconomic strategy group as EMD head Richard House departs the group.

SWIP multi-manager head Mark Harries is moving back into equities, after halving his exposure following last August's sell-off.

After a volatile start to 2012, equity markets have staged a prolonged rally in recent weeks.

ON NORTH AMERICA

In this Q&A Merlin manager and Jupiter CIO John Chatfeild-Roberts explains his thinking on financials and his fears over the impact of quantitative easing.

In the latest Conjecture debate, our panelists from Aberdeen Asset Management, MFS Investment Management, S&P Capital IQ and Threadneedle Investments discussed UK Equity.