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Hargreaves Lansdown has added the BNY Mellon Multi-Asset Balanced fund to its Wealth Shortlist, Investment Week can reveal.

Investors will have heard the adage ‘sell in May and go away’. This makes reference to the fact that historically returns in stock markets have been stronger,

A duo of two BNY Mellon funds have retained their spot in HL’s Wealth Shortlist after the passing of Suzanne Hutchins in December last year.

RLAM's head of fixed income Jonathan Platt has stepped down from his fund management responsibilities on the Royal London Corporate Bond fund.

The proportion of UK active managers that outperformed last year was lower than usual, while its passive peers continued to gain market share.

With the Black Friday sales coming up, here are five funds that have had challenging periods of performance, but that the analysis team continue to have conviction in.

Among UK companies with reports and updates are Bellway, Frasers, Jet2, Moneysupermarket.com, 888, Lookers, essensys and PageGroup.

Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) has appointed Richard Caldicott as financial advice director. He will join HL from M&G Wealth in October, to head up the HL financial advice proposition.

James Jamieson has joined Hargreaves Lansdown’s UK equity team from RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM).

Hargreaves Lansdown has appointed two new talents to its investment analysis and research team. Derren Nathan becomes head of equity research, while Hal Cook takes the role of senior investment analyst.