Jupiter

Philip Ehrmann is joining Jupiter in October to launch a Chinese equity fund.

Tom Pearson is to become the overall director of all asset management sales at Jupiter from September.

As it is no longer compulsory for pensioners to buy an annuity, and with an increase in longevity, pensioners should take more risks with their investments, claims Jupiter.

Jupiter is the asset manager advisers would most like to see adopt UNIPASS digital certificate technology, according to the results of polls conducted by standards organisation Origo.

Jupiter's European special situations manager Leon Howard Spink is going to Schroders, to run the European Alpha Fund when Adriaan de Mol van Oterloo's leaves later this year.

Multimanager providers and financial intermediaries face the tricky task of explaining to customers multiplying middlemen (and women) fund managers can produce superior overall returns.

SMOKERS IN their 40s are more likely to die in their 60s than non-smokers, according to a life insurance report published in the Guardian .