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The number of new jobs created in the US in March has missed estimates but failed to dent investor optimism as US markets opened higher this afternoon.

Ian Ormiston has added to European construction stocks in his Ignis European Smaller Companies fund in the expectation this area of the market is in line to benefit from a economic recovery.

Emerging markets took a tumble at the start of the year and worried investors pulled their money out of some of the largest emerging market equity funds in the UK market.

St James's Place is to reallocate £7bn in mandates currently run by Invesco Perpetual to Neil Woodford and Threadneedle, with a further £700m mandate going to Manulife.

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