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Stockbrokers across the City are considering lodging an official complaint after many were excluded from the Royal Mail float last week.

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Janet Yellen's appointment as chairman of the US Federal Reserve could see tapering of quantitative easing (QE) as early as December, experts say.

Technical problems on Hargreaves Lansdown's website have frustrated investors who are trying to trade Royal Mail shares this morning.

M&G's Graham French has told investors last year was one of the toughest periods of his career as his fund underperformed amid a torrid time for commodities.

Fidelity's Teera Chanpongsang is to hand over the group's onshore Emerging Asia fund on 1 November as he prepares to take over the £2.1bn South East Asia OEIC.

David North, Legal & General Investment Management's former head of asset allocation and high yield, is set to return to the fund management industry.

Martin Currie has appointed Michael Millar as an investment manager on its Asian equities team.

Cazenove's Marcus Brookes and Robin McDonald have bought back into commodities for the first time since the financial crisis, snapping up funds which have sold off sharply on the back of tumbling commodity prices.