Pre-tax profits at Artemis Investment Managers have reached £102m according to the Sunday Herald.

That would be a 20 per cent uplift on the £82.8m recorded in the prior financial year.

Shareholders in Lloyds Banking Group may soon get their first dividend since the financial crisis, according to the Sunday Telegraph. Lloyds is expected to ask to make the payment when it submits its annual results to the Bank of England. The payment is expected to be modest if it is approved.

Simon Cooper, the head of HSBC's commercial bank, has been tipped by the Sunday Telegraph as a potential successor to Standard Chartered boss Peter Sands.

It comes after major shareholders in the bank, including Aberdeen Asset Management, are said to have expressed a desire to have a succession plan in place before the end of this year.

The owners of fashion chain Jigsaw, have handed out shares to management for the first time. The Mail on Sunday says the move by John and Belle Robinson will pave the way for a possible sale of the business.

An American private equity firm is considering a £2 billion bid for Autotrader. The Sunday Times says Hellman & Friedman's plan would put the brakes on a stock market flotation of the vehicle trading site.

Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley is among those named as a possible buyer of BHS from Sir Philip Green in The Mail on Sunday. That comes after South African billionaire Christopher Wiese dropped out of the race for the high street giant. Department store Beales is another named as an interested party while there has also been interest from a BHS supplier in the Far East.

Iain Mercer, formerly of the Almondvale Group and the son of the late Hearts supremo Wallace Mercer, is returning to the commercial property market.

According to Scotland on Sunday Mr Mercer is joining IME in Edinburgh as its managing director. The business has taken on retail premises in the city to showcase its properties in a similar way to residential estate agents.