By Elliot Gulliver-Needham The Financial Conduct Authority has revealed a host of changes to investment research rules today in an attempt to enhance analysts’ coverage of smaller companies and boost investment into the stock market. A lack of investment research in the UK has been frequently cited as a key reason for declining investment in Britain over the last five years, with billions in funding flowing out of UK funds. The amount of money spent on investment research budgets has been dropping dramatically in the wake of MiFID II, a set of EU regulations drawn up in 2018 to increase transp…