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SVM's World Equity fund, run by Neil Veitch, has benefited from a pickup in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity this year, with a number of takeover targets giving his fund a lift.

Improving factory data and a sliding yen helped lift Japanese shares overnight, amid a positive session for Asian markets in general.

US stock exchanges halted all trading in companies listed on the Nasdaq on Thursday after a "serious" technical issue stopped it from quoting share prices accurately.

Guy Monson, CIO of Sarasin & Partners, has outlined a number of key risks which could impact rising global equity markets as we head into 2014, amid the well-flagged move by the US central bank to wind down QE.

The tapering of bond purchases in the US will not lead to interest rate rises, and could in fact prolong record low rates, M&G's Richard Woolnough has said.

Invesco Perpetual's star manager Neil Woodford has warned that the UK market is likely to see a rise in short-term volatility as the US withdraws monetary support.

The managers of Standard Life Investment's giant £18bn Global Absolute Return Strategies fund have put in place four key trades ahead of an expected uptick in volatility in September, which they expect to benefit investors into 2014.

Better-than-expected data from China and the Eurozone helped the FTSE 100 rebound from a three-day sell-off that saw the index hit a six-week low earlier this week.

Specialist investment manager Hargreave Hale has poached Jean Roche from Panmure Gordon in a move to strengthen its fund management team.

Wealth managers are becoming increasingly concerned about allocating towards the Neptune Income fund, amid Hargreaves Lansdown's decision to remove the fund from its Wealth 150 list earlier this week.