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Revenue and profits of UK mid-cap companies have beaten those of their FTSE 100 peers over the past year, as larger firms have seen their margins squeezed.

UK equities manager Philip Hardy has left FOUR Capital Partners after less than a year.

In the heady world of mergers and acquisitions, the proposed sale of Transact by its founding members is unlikely to raise any eyebrows. But in the financial services industry, it is a sign that at least one area of the platform market has finally come...

Equity Income fund managers are yet to warm to the tobacco sector, despite a strong 2014 for stocks driven by M&A and their defensive qualities.

The UK economy appears to be in rude health. In May, the Bank of England upgraded its growth forecasts for 2015 to 2.9%, from 2.7%, saying that the economy "has started to head back towards normal". It left its growth prediction for this year unchanged...

Almost 90% of active UK equity fund managers beat the benchmark index last year, far outstripping the performance of other active managers, an S&P Indices report has found.

The UK economy expanded by 0.8% in the second quarter,above its pre-crisis peak, official statistics revealed today.

Baillie Gifford UK Alpha fund's Gerard Callahan.