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Better-than-expected German and French GDP figures have raised investor hopes that Europe's second largest economy will ease eurozone pain.

Discretionary fund manager Brooks Macdonald is to make its administration services available to adviser clients, following "significant demand".

A solution to the European debt crisis will not be enough to turn around global economic performance, at least for the next few years, according to a report by thinktank the Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR).

Henderson has reported net outflows of £2.1bn in the first half of 2012 as second quarter retail outflows hit AUM amid difficult markets.

The Accounting and Actuarial Discipline board has launched an investigation into the accounting errors discovered at RSM Tenon earlier this year.

Operating profits at Standard Life UK rose by more than 60% in the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2011, driven by an increase in fee revenues and lower acquisition costs.

Almost 40% of advisers believe the government's introduction of automatic transfers for small pensions was right but remain unsure how it will work in practice, a poll has found.

Pershing has begun hosting its practice management programme in the UK for the first time, giving firms an insight into regulation, buying, selling and merging businesses, technology and changing client demands.

Fidelity Worldwide Investment has launched a shopping around tool with Annuity Direct to help people use the open market option.

Asset management boutique Newton, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, is set to launch fully unbundled Retail Distribution Review (RDR)-ready share classes across its entire fund range in September.