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Cherry Reynard examines whether the global equity rally can be sustained...

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Aegon has signed a deal with discretionary fund manager (DFM) London & Capital (L&C), making a range of the DFM's multi-asset portfolios available via the provider's platform.

Tristan Hanson, head of asset allocation at Ashburton, explores the correlation between expectations of returns and expected returns.

Ken Rayner, investment director at Rayner Spencer Mills, reveals his favourite fund picks from the widely-varied IMA Mixed Investment 40-85% Shares sector.

Prudential has reported operating profits for 2012 of £2.5bn, up 25% on the previous year.

Tony Stenning, head of UK retail business at BlackRock, on the rise of risk-rated fund of funds investing in index strategies or ETFs...

Standard Life Investments (SLI) has handed its £52m UK Equity High Alpha fund to UK equity analyst Henry Flockhart, who will replace Ed Legget as lead manager on the fund.

Threadneedle is preparing to soft-close Philip Dicken's £1bn Pan-European Smaller Companies fund.

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