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A mixed year for equity markets nonetheless ended on a high, with the FTSE 100 up over 12% year to date and the FTSE All Share 15% ahead, but which stocks thrived and which dived in 2013?

Newly-listed Royal Mail has entered the FTSE 100 index of the UK's largest companies following a huge move in its share price post-IPO.

Nick Ford, manager of the Miton US Opportunities fund, has selected his top five quality US equities poised to benefit from the strong recovery in the world's largest economy and an improving environment for consumer and business spending.

As 2013 draws to a close, we look back over the major news stories in an eventful year.

Business secretary Vince Cable has warned interest rates may have to rise to hold back a "raging housing boom" in London and the south-east.

Prusik Investment Management co-founder Heather Manners has outlined three forward-looking Asian themes she expects to drive returns for her portfolio in 2014 and beyond.

The government will permit the transfer of cash saved in now-defunct child trust funds (CTFs) to junior ISAs.

Aegon UK is to buy Novia Investment Services Limited (NISL) from parent Novia Financial in a deal which brings its platform development business in-house, Investment Week can reveal.

Jupiter's Rhys Petheram is to take over the fixed income portion of the group's £540m High Income fund from Ariel Bezalel next year.

The UK economy grew by 0.8% in the third quarter, confirming previous estimates, the office for National Statistics (ONS) has announced.