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Sector report: Are US investors in for a smoother ride?

The growth themes poised to dominate

UBS Wealth Management chief investment officer Alexander Friedman has said that the firm expects company performance in the US and the Eurozone to drive equities in those regions higher in the coming months.

Dovish Federal Reserve minutes sent US and Asian markets higher overnight, allaying fears the Fed could raise rates earlier than expected.

Aviva Investors has sold its US equity investment management subsidiary River Road Asset Management in an effort to streamline its US business.

Thousands of ‘accidental Americans' could be unwittingly caught by the Foreign Accounting and Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) from July, leaving them exposed to US tax liabilities, Vestra Wealth has warned.

The US Federal Reserve chairman Janet Yellen has hinted that interest rates in the US could start to rise in early 2015.

A US regulator has sued 16 banks for allegedly manipulating the London interbank offered rate (Libor).

Investors have a decision to make: stick with the expensive developed world or take a risk on cheaper emerging markets.