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European Wealth has opened an office in Manchester, expanding its regional network into the North West of England, after recruiting a pair of former Barclays investment managers.

Hermes Fund Managers has been rebranded as Hermes Investment Management, adopting a new corporate logo to reflect the change.

There have been "stark changes" to investor behaviour recently, but beware over-confidence in the UK economy as tailwinds could soon turn to headwinds, warns Franklin Templeton's Colin Morton.

Investments in the healthcare sector have been on an upward climb in the last decade - but shares in drug companies are not the only way to play the sector. Kenneth Mackenzie from Target Advisers explains why the fundamentals for residential care stack...

Yields on blue chip equities are "staggering" and HSBC is glaringly good value, says Chris White from Premier Asset Management.

Long division: The end of the MPC consensus

Diplomatic and territorial conflicts have been rising but defence stocks remain strangely overlooked. City Financial's Benjamin Dawes explains why cyber security and homeland defence companies are worth a punt.

Old Mutual Global Investors' Richard Buxton is considering buying Tesco for the first time in four years, as managers investigate a contrarian opportunity in the stock despite the spectre of dividend cuts.

UK consumer price inflation assumed its downwards trajectory once more in July following a sharp spike the previous month.

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