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Shares in Standard Life were topping the FTSE 100 leaderboard this morning after its latest update showed assets under management(AUM)at its investment business had reached a new record.

Technology giant ARM - the provider of microchips used in tablets and smartphones - helped drive the FTSE 100 higher this morning after a round of better than expected results.

Fund managers are starting to buy back into UK-listed large-cap miners, seeing valuations as too good to refuse as wider sentiment on the sector hits a "decade low".

The FTSE 100 continued to recover today as banks lifted the index higher on signs that some of the instability in Europe is coming to an end.

Rathbones' head of multi-asset investments is hedging portfolios against a market fall as the US recovery looks set to bring an end to quantitative easing.

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Mark Martin, manager of the Neptune UK Mid Cap fund, explains why investors should expect M&A activity to return to markets, and which mid-cap companies could be prime targets for takeover.

UK stock markets and their European counterparts continued to sell-off today as ongoing worries about global growth and a sharp fall in the US overnight weighed on sentiment.

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