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Unbundled pricing now visible on Fidelity's 'Select List' service suggests asset managers have avoided a squeeze on margins, with just four of 66 active equity funds priced at below 75bps.

Psigma Investment Management has hired Rathbones investment director Tim Wishart to lead its expansion in Scotland.

Neil Woodford is to use a three-week offer period to launch a new UK equity income fund when he joins Oakley Capital this May.

Philip Matthews has turned over almost half the holdings in the Schroder UK Alpha Plus fund since taking over the fund from Richard Buxton in October, IFAonline sister title Investment Week can reveal.

Investor confidence in UK shares rose at the start of February, according to the latest Lloyds Bank Private Banking Investor Sentiment Index, to reach its highest point in the survey's one year history.

Fidelity Worldwide Investment is set to launch a new equity index range in March, available to the adviser market exclusively through FundsNetwork with fees starting at 0.09%.

Schroders is to wind up its UK Core fund, calling time on its first offering in the 'low-cost active' space after failing to gather assets in the three years since launch.