AXA Wealth’s specialist investment company Architas has changed its active and passive funds to provide simpler and clearer names.

Wrap platform firm Ascentric has launched an Isle of Man-based offshore bond administered by Royal London 360°.

Financial Planners and investment specialists are making their way to London for the sixth annual Morningstar Investment conference.

Katie Koch, managing director of the Investment Management Division in the Office of the Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, kicked off the Morningstar London Investment Conference 2012 with a prediction that emerging markets would be the main engine for world growth over the next decade.

The heads of Which? consumer group, British Bankers’ Association and MoneySavingExpert.com have written to the Secretary to State about claims management companies.

Nigel Bolton, head of European Consulting at fund manager Blackrock, told the Morningstar London Investment Conference 2012 today that European stocks were looking cheap relative to world counterparts.

Advisers feel consumers are unaware about the upcoming RDR changes, according to Defaqto.

Richard Saunders, chief executive of the Investment Management Association, has announced he is leaving the organisation.

John Pattullo, head of Retail Fixed Income, Henderson Global Investors, told delegates at the Morningstar Conference 2012 in London that one of Europe's key problems was that people did not want to borrow.

Hendrik du Toit, chief executive of South Africa's Investec Asset Management, told delegates at the Morningstar Investment Conference 2012 in London that investment would become an increasingly global choice and the US was about to join in.