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The British Medical Association has called Government plans to give GPs more control of a £5bn education and training budget "troubling".

Assets in US listed ETFs and ETPs reached $1.027trn last Thursday, according to BlackRock's Global ETF Research and Implementation Strategy Team.

BNY Mellon Asset Management's Asia Pacific head has quit to run the firm's ETF business, Mellon Capital, in San Fransisco.

The Bank of Japan has kept interest rates static at between 0% and 0.1% in a bid to boost the nation's economy and rein in inflation.

NEST Corp will offer members the choice to invest their pensions in a socially responsible investment (SRI) fund, and is advertising for fund managers.

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