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Direct-to-consumer platform giant Hargreaves Lansdown has called in external consultants to review its proposition and assess what technology could be added in future to enhance the service.

L&G Investments is set to merge four funds it formerly managed for Barclays Wealth and Investment Management into existing in-house portfolios.

With equity markets more volatile than ever, and safe havens around the world looking vulnerable to a correction, investors have more things than ever to fret over as they try to steer portfolios through the turmoil.

Mark Pignatelli, manager of the Smith & Williamson European Growth trust, has predicted European bank shares will rise 70% over the next two and a half years as the European economic cycle reaches its trough.

Record revenues for the last quarter have helped make Hargreaves Lansdown the biggest riser in the FTSE 100 in early trading, but the wider market has slipped back.

The largest company listed on the Athens stock exchange is seeking to re-list in the UK, potentially placing it in the FTSE 100, as the company attempts to flee the Greek economic crisis.

International lenders will meet this weekend to discuss an emergency lifeboat worth up to €15bn, in a bid to stop the Greek crisis spreading to Eastern Europe.

Liontrust is proposing to merge the Macro UK High Alpha fund into its Macro UK Growth fund due to the "sub-optimal" size of the high alpha vehicle.

The FTSE 100 will rise over 70% and hit the 10,000 mark in the next decade, Invesco Perpetual's Martin Walker has predicted.

Luxury fashion brand Burberry jumped almost 10% this morning after it reported better than expected trading following its profit warning last month.