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Financial advisers are becoming increasingly bullish on the UK stock market's prospects as the domestic economy shows signs of improvement, according to FE.

AFH Financial Group PLC, an independent financial advisory and discretionary wealth management firm, has raised £2.8m to fund its acquisition strategy.

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Aviva Investors head of equities David Lis lists financials, media, mining, support services and smaller companies as the places he is seeing the most value in the UK equity market.

UK EQUITY INCOME

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia could be used to indicate future movements in the stock market, a new study has suggested.

Confidence among UK savers is growing with a third planning to increase the amount they invest in the next 12 months, a survey has revealed.

Global investors are feeling bullish about the prospect of further stockmarket gains this year, and are also favouring precious metals despite recent price falls, according to the Franklin Templeton Global Investor Sentiment survey.

Stocks have room to rise, investors need to diversify across fixed income and seek yield globally and emerging markets deserve another look, is the advice to investors from J.P. Morgan Asset Management.