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Miton Group - Gervais Williams' fund management company - has announced plans to launch a range of UK equity funds after a positive year for the group which saw assets climb towards £2bn.

Threadneedle's head of US equities Cormac Weldon considers how far along the road to recovery the US really is, as well as which sectors will support and benefit from the economic revival.

US regulators are scrutinising whether prices are being manipulated in the world's largest gold market, based in London.

Alliance Trust chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox has outlined three roadblocks which could hinder economic growth in 2013 and derail soaring global equity markets.

Billionaire Wall Street hedge fund titan John Paulson is reportedly planning to move to Caribbean island Puerto Rico to cut his tax bill.

ASSET ALLOCATION

Robert Anstey, lead manager of the Hermes US Small & Mid Cap fund, explains where his team is finding value further down the market-cap spectrum.

SHALE GAS

Insurance firm Aviva suffered a loss of £3bn in 2012 due to a £3.3bn writedown from the sale of its US business last year.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average - one of the two most quoted indices in the US - has hit a record high above 14,200 points, surpassing its 2007 peak.