Mark Zinkula, the chief executive of Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), has been appointed as group executive director of Legal & General (L&G).

Investors are being forced to take on more risk as inflation continues to stay above the Bank of England's 2% target, experts said.

Architas is offering the option to map its funds to the Distribution Technology (DT) risk profiling scale.

LV= has expressed concerns over the Financial Services Authority's (FSA's) proposed changes to projection rates.

Experts have questioned how effective the latest round of quantitative easing (QE) in the US will be, with the chances of success "finely balanced".

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Positive Solutions head of propositions Andrew Waldron and business development director Jonathan Morley are to leave the firm.

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Architas is offering the option to map its funds to the FinaMetrica risk-profiling scale, to help advisers match their clients with the group's funds.

HSBC Global Asset Management has launched an RDR-ready share class on its passive fund range.