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This week financial services firm Hargreaves Lansdown has launched lower minimum investment sums for its Vantage Service in a bid to attract more first time investors...

Standard Life Investments announced last week that increasing demand for its award-winning range of 25 MyFolio funds has pushed assets under management (UAM) through the £5bn mark...

Morningstar Investment Management Group has announced the appointment of Diane Earnshaw as Head of UK Consulting and Edward Fane as Senior Investment Consultant and Portfolio Manager...

By Caspar van Grafhorst, Senior Credit Analyst at ING Investment Management   The market of contingent convertible bonds, or Cocos as they are often referred to, is increasing thus forcing investors to look at it...

The CF Miton UK Value Opportunities Fund has passed through £100 million in assets under management (AUM)...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Craig Cameron, former Director of Burlington, for dishonest involvement in the sale of Unregulated Collective Investment Schemes (UCIS) to retail customers...

A year on since the Chancellor allowed AIM stocks in ISAs, new research analysing UK investor attitudes to AIM found that younger audiences – those aged 30-44 – are taking the lead in investing in the Alternative Investment Market (AIM)...

Equiniti, a provider of Investment Services, has appointed Huw Thompson as Business Development Director for Equiniti wealth management solutions...

Institutional investors regard emerging market equities as the most attractive in terms of risk and return over the next six to twelve months, a new report has suggested...

London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSEG) has announced that Sharon Bowles has joined the LSEG Board as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect...

Skandia has this week announced that it will be closing its versions of the Invesco Perpetual Income and High Income funds, and will be moving investors in these funds into their new version of Woodford Equity Income on October 9th 2014...

Morningstar UK Limited, provider of independent investment research, has announced the shortlist for its Outstanding Investor Award and Outstanding Rising Talent Award...

A UK-based equity crowd investment platform aimed at unlocking the huge growth potential of strong, well-managed companies in emerging and frontier markets is soon to be launched by Emerging Crowd, a recent announcement stated...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), in the first use of its new consumer protection powers, will limit firms from distributing contingent convertible securities (CoCos) to the mass retail market from 1 October 2014...

A leading investment analyst has urged investors to ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ as the day for UK and U...

Global fund manager Standard Investments enjoyed a record breaking first half to 2014, continuing the momentum the company has seen over the past ten years, it has reported...

Resources sector equities are currently more attractive than direct investments in physical commodities, according to Baring Asset Management (Barings)...

With holiday season in full swing, Hargreaves Lansdown has asked a selection of leading fund managers to share their favourite books on investing, for investors looking for some stimulating but entertaining reading on their summer holidays...

The Upper Tribunal has upheld the judgement made by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on former hedge fund CEO Alberto Micalizzi...

An online platform that enables investors to follow and copy expert trading strategies has launched this week...