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Aberdeen Asset Management is to partner with pensions consultancy Hymans Robertson for a service which will see it use the firm's technology to target direct investors for the first time.

Stephen Bailey, co-manager of the £584m Liontrust Macro Equity Income fund, explains why he and Jan Luthman have turned positive on the UK consumer.

Beware 'blue-chip dinosaurs'

Positions in European consumer staples have outperformed in run up to the European Central Bank's quantitative easing programme, as investors look to mimic the highs of US and UK equity markets, according to Polar Capital's Nick Davis.

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JP Morgan's emerging markets manager Leon Eidelman has argued the slowing of EM economies does not mean investors should write them off altogether.

Wonga will write off the debts of 330,000 customers, worth £220m, after the FCA found flaws in its system for assessing the ability of borrowers to pay back their debts.

The FCA will again shine the spotlight on the investment industry this year: here Investment Week highlights the key issues flagged by the regulator in today's Risk Outlook 2014.

Ensuring direct-to-consumer (D2C) platforms do not stray into advice has become an "obsession" that is ultimately stunting innovation, a report has concluded.