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Hargreaves Lansdown chief financial officer Tracey Taylor has stepped down from her role and will leave the business next year.

The US economy added 321,000 jobs last month, a figure well above the 230,000 rise that had been forecast and one which will bring forward expectations of a US rate hike.

Schroders' multi-manager Marcus Brookes has underperformed this year across his Multi-Manager Diversity strategies, but says his investment thesis will be proved correct in time.

Investors are continuing to fall into the 'trap' of buying companies with a high dividend yield, according to Invesco Perpetual's Mark Barnett.

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has issued a warning over Chancellor George Osborne's plans for the UK to "go it alone" on corporate tax reform.

Advisers have welcomed the Chancellor's overhaul of the taxation system around buying property, saying it is an "ingenious" idea that will benefit the majority of clients.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned major cuts to public services will be needed to finance the measures announced in the Autumn Statement.

The world's second largest fund manager is calling for an improvement in the relationship between company directors and shareholders, on concerns about global corporate governance.

Investors in frontier markets are among the bigger winners of 2014. The MSCI Frontier Markets returned 17.9% in the year to 3 December 2014, compared to a paltry 5.2% for the MSCI Emerging Markets.

Barings' global resources manager Duncan Goodwin shares his view on a volatile commodities market at this year's Investment Week Funds to Watch conference.