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F&C Investments' UK equity head Peter Lees has been moving up the market-cap scale in his £210m UK Alpha fund, upping exposure to FTSE 100 names by 15% since the start of the year.

It is August, and another football season will soon be upon us. Spare a moment, however, for those football managers who will not make it to the end of the season.

Ex-Henderson manager Trevor Green has revamped the £128m Aviva Investors UK Focus fund since he took it over from Mervyn Douglas in May this year.

The UK dividend market is emerging from the recession faster and stronger than expected, after a week in which many companies reported dividend increases of over 100% and many returned to the register.

The platform policy paper will be published on Monday, the FSA said today.

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George Osborne has defended the government's economic policies after new figures showed a slowdown in growth, and claimed the UK is a 'safe haven' compared to other nations.