Equities

Hedge fund manager Man Group is to drop out of the FTSE 100 following the index's latest quarterly review after a fresh period of poor share price performance took its toll on the company.

City Financial is to take over management of Octopus Investments' Absolute UK Equity fund in a move which will see manager David Crawford join the group.

Billionaire investor George Soros has told European leaders they only have three months to rescue the single currency.

Weak US jobs data has caused panic in global markets and forced US Treasury yields to fall to yet another record low.

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The Chancellor, George Osborne, is taking legal action against the EU over plans to give a pan-European superviser far-reaching powers to ban or limit the short-selling of financial products, the Financial Times reports.

Mark Holden has lifted the £107m UK Focus fund out of the bottom quartile by concentrating the portfolio into just 21 stocks.

The British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) has revised down its forecast for economic growth this year, from 0.6% to 0.1%

Schroder Asia Pacific fund manager Matthew Dobbs explains why investors should keep an eye on the composition of growth in China not just the headline figures.

BlackRock's Bob Doll predicts Europe's debt crisis will remain well contained, allowing global growth to continue at a modest pace.