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The FTSE rose 0.6% to 5619.92 by 3.45pm today, buoyed by a flurry of positive announcements across sectors.

River and Mercantile (R&M) launches its Global High Income fund this week for manager Alex O'Reilly.

Neptune's Jeremy Smith wonders whether the FTSE All Share will finish 2010 higher than it was at the start of the year.

Cazenove's Tim Russell is running a broadly market-neutral approach in his UK Absolute Target fund as equities display heightened volatility.

UK equities grind higher as the year progresses.

Finsbury Growth & Income Trust's Nick Train says changes to the makeup of the UK stockmarket mean investing in overseas companies is more important now than ever

Trust is to diversify away from concentrated UK sectors after 90% of investors voted to allocate non-UK companies

A new and viable breed of funds is emerging: those that combine the benefits of active asset allocation with low-cost, index-tracking products, writes HSBC's Andy Clark.

Standard Life Investments' Property Income Trust plans to grow its dividends by 10% this year after buying £21m of property in 2009.