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Pioneer Investments has launched an emerging markets bond short-term strategy in response to investors' need for better protection from rising interest rates.

Improving employment figures in the US are encouraging Premier Asset Management's Jake Robbins to increase his exposure to US healthcare companies.

Investors should be turning their attention to small-cap stocks, instead of their larger counterparts, to play the export-led recovery in Europe, according to S.W. Mitchell Capital's Jamie Carter.

Kames Capital's Phil Milburn has put over 10% of his Strategic Bond fund in high yield index protection, in the belief investors are too complacent about the risk of Greece leaving the eurozone.

The FTSE 100 climbed in morning trading despite a 4% slump in Royal Mail shares as RBS and Sainsbury lifted UK blue chips.

Thesis Asset Management has launched a UK equity-only model portfolio that invests in direct securities rather than funds.

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has used the annual Mansion House speech to warn that asset managers must prepare for the consequences of normalising monetary conditions.

Chancellor George Osborne is to begin selling the government's 80% stake in Royal Bank of Scotland at a loss, saying any further delay could jeopardise the economy.

Schroders has expanded its range with the launch of an emerging markets multi-asset income fund.

Troy Trojan Income manager Francis Brooke has been reducing his fund's position in utilities to protect against the threat of rising bond yields.