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Neil Woodford's £13.7bn High Income fund is at risk of being expelled from the IMA UK Equity Income sector at the end of 2013 if its historic yield does not improve.

Albemarle Street Partners has compiled a buy list of 100 funds using its new screening tool ‘Alpha Quest', creating a rival to popular lists of funds already in the market.

The prospect of a sell-off in both equities and bonds, akin to that seen in 1994, is a "very real concern", according to Ruffer investment directors Hamish Baillie and Steve Russell.

Investors will be offered the chance to buy discounted shares in Lloyds Banking Group, as George Osborne plans to sell taxpayers' stake in the bank sooner rather than later.

What happens when the tap is turned off? UK equities posted their 12th consecutive month of gains in May, but our most read stories at the start of June suggest investors will be increasingly nervous in the months ahead.

Wall Street rallied at the start of the session today after non-farm payroll numbers from the US beat expectations.

Invesco Perpetual's head of investment Neil Woodford has begun building new positions in a number of businesses across his £25bn fund range over the past year.

The US economy added 175,000 jobs in May, beating analyst expectations, although the unemployment rate ticked up in what was dubbed the most important jobs release in years.

Scott Jamieson, head of multi-asset investing at Kames Capital, is running his highest ever allocation to the US dollar in the view it could appreciate as much as 20%-25%.

Emerging market fund flows have suffered their worst week since 2011, as investors fear a correction arising from the tapering of the US's QE program.