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IFA and discretionary wealth manager AFH Financial Group plans to list on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange as it eyes future expansion.

Frontier markets delivered a positive return in January, as local ‘sticky money' stayed put in the face of heavy outflows from EMs.

The Bank of England will not hike interest rates until well in to 2015 at the earliest, according to Hawksmoor Investment Management's head of research, Jim Wood-Smith.

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AXA Framlington UK Mid Cap manager Chris St John has said now is a "good time to be cynical" as signs emerge of increasingly bullish activity in markets.

Japan's economy grew less than expected at the end of last year, highlighting potential weaknesses in Prime Minister Abe's economic policies.