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Financial regulators in the US are warning investors and advisers to beware the limitations of automated investment tools.

Ex- Gartmore manager Nigel Kennett, whose Canlife UK Equity portfolio has one of the industry's largest overweights to BG Group, is considering buying Jupiter to replace the natural gas giant.

Fees charged by discretionary fund managers to platforms are set to face the same downwards pressure being seen elsewhere in the industry, Nucleus business development director Barry Neilson has predicted.

Emerging market stocks can flourish in the face of a tightening cycle from the US Federal Reserve, according to Lazard Global Equity Income manager Pat Ryan.

Franklin Templeton's Grant Bowers has suggested some US biotechnology companies verge on looking like "value stocks" despite the fierce rally enjoyed by the sector over the past half-decade.

Chancellor George Osborne is set to take the unusual step of delivering two Budgets in the same year, after announcing plans to keep the promises the Conservatives made ahead of the general election.

EEA Fund Management's parent company has rebranded and created a new subsidiary as it moves away from the name associated with its troubled life settlements fund.

A "combination of politics and pensions" contributed to slower sales across platforms in the first three months of the year, with the year-on-year (YOY) asset growth rate also receding, according to research.

RWC's income managers Ian Lance and Nick Purves are continuing to run significant cash weightings in their portfolios on the view markets are "more than 20% overvalued".

Britain's foreign secretary Philip Hammond has echoed Bank of England Governor Mark Carney's calls for a 'fast' referendum on Britain's place in the EU.