Multi-manager

Credit Suisse multi-manager duo Graham Duce and Aidan Kearney have significantly upped exposure to cash across their portfolios, believing that any market rally this year is likely to be short lived.

Three prominent multi-managers have fallen victim to restructuring and are set to be replaced.

Peter Botham has outlined a change in focus for Brown Shipley's Solus multi-manager portfolios, which has taken place since he joined the firm as chief investment officer in April.

T. Bailey's Growth and Cautious Managed portfolios have been made available via Skandia's life and pensions fund range.

Katy Gladstone will not be returning to Henderson as co-head of its multi-manager team following a five month sabbatical.

F&C Investments has appointed Oliver Sonnbichler as a fund manager in its multi-manager team.

F&C Investments has appointment Oliver Sonnbichler as a fund manager, bolstering its multi-manager team to four.

Richard Philbin, CIO of Architas, AXA's new multi-manager investment business, has said it is a priority to hire "four to six" key appointments ahead of the launch of a new range of funds before the end of the year.

Several high profile multi-managers are shifting portfolios towards the US at the expense of European weightings in a reversal of recent years.

Jupiter Asset Management has launched a Luxembourg-authorised Jupiter Merlin Funds Sicav.