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Hargreaves Lansdown's legal challenge to HMRC's move to tax platform rebates was the story of most interest to Investment Week's readers this week.

A second Hargreaves story also proved popular, as the group's Wealth 150 list of recommended funds shrank below the 100 mark for the first time. Elsewhere, Invesco Perpetual revealed its plans for the team it poached from Standard Life Investments, and the current GARS team outlined three recent winning trades- and three which did not go quite as planned. Meanwhile, analysis of flows into absolute return funds, and trends in the commodities market caught our readers' eyes. Also on the hot list this week were the finalists for Investment Company of the Year Awards 2013, and a couple...

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