Woolf giving up MAM Blue Chip

Barry Woolf has given up running the Mercury British Blue Chip fund in anticipation of his retirement from fund management later this year, writes Kira Nickerson. Woolf has been with Mercury for 31 years and has managed the Blue Chip fund since 1989. Mark Darell-Brown has taken over the management of the fund. Previously Darell-Brown, who has been with Mercury for six years, was a senior member of Mercury's European investment team and was involved in running some of the group's institutional UK portfolios. The £270m British Blue Chip fund, rated frAA by Standard & Poors has returned -3....