How much do you remember from the week's news?

Former Financial Services Director (FSA) director of conduct policy Sheila Nicoll has joined Ernst & Young's asset management practice as a senior adviser.

The Bank of England (BoE) has elected to hold the base rate at 0.5% and maintain the size of its quantitative easing (QE) programme at £375bn.

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Axa UK has appointed Bertrand Poupart-Lafarge as the UK group's chief financial officer.

Rowan Dartington has restructured its senior team, resulting in Tim Cockerill taking over as investment director and Guy Stephens as managing director of the Signature division.

Morningstar OBSR has downgraded the Fidelity Special Situations fund rating from silver to neutral following the announcement that Sanjeev Shah will be stepping down as manager.

Axa Wealth has announced that former Skandia strategy manager Kate Randall-Coles is to take over from Graham Bentley as the head of fund group relations.

Morningstar's managed portfolio service for advisers is now available on Transact.

MOVERS & SHAKERS