Gartmore Investment Management has launched a news centre via its website, Gartmore.com.
Christopher Sundman has been appointed portfolio manager at Handelsbanken Kapitalforvaltning - the asset management arm of Swedish bank Handelsbanken.
Nomura Asset Management UK (NAM) - local arm of the Japanese financial group - has received the go-ahead from the the Spanish Stock Exchange commission (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores) for the distribution of its global fund range.
Three recently thwarted Standard Life board nominees, Dugald Eadie and actuaries Ronnie Sloan and Vince Whitefoord, have welcomed the statement by Standard's new chief executive elect, Iain Lumsden, that he intends to adopt a more approachable stance....
Cazenove has appointed HSBC Asset Management's Andrew Ross to head up its fund management business.
UK's £25m pension fund for bathroom manufacturers Jacuzzi Group is on the verge of dumping Schroder Investment Management (SIM).
The board of Old Mutual has agreed to split the roles of chairman and chief executive officer.
Schroder Salomon Smith Barney (SSSB), the new division of Citigroup, has launched a pan-European smaller companies research and equity service, headed by Mark Rayner and Richard Taylor.
The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) in Ireland has announced it will outsource over a dozen pension fund mandates for the EUR6.5bn (£3.9bn) National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF).
The $56bn Ohio Public Employees' Retirement System (OPERS) has put a total of $2.6bn in US equities mandates out to tender, according to the fund's consultant Ennis, Knupp & Associates.