Money Marketing
2 September 2009

Which? attack on bank advisers

3 Sep 2009
A quarter of pensioners losing out on state benefits

3 Sep 2009
Abbey warns stamp duty deadline is approaching

4 Sep 2009

Abbey is encouraging prospective home buyers to act fast if they aim to complete their purchase before the end of the stamp duty holiday.
ABI hits out at FSA complaints data

3 Sep 2009

The Association of British Insurers has hit out at the FSA, claiming it has failed to put its aggregate complaints data into context to reflect the wider insurance market.
ABI warns Chancellor over insurers' capital reserves

2 Sep 2009
ABI/BIBA/Law Society publish PI book for solicitors

8 Sep 2009

The Association of British Insurers, the British Insurance Brokers’ Association and the Law Society have launched a guide to buying professional indemnity insurance for solicitors.
Accountant jailed for £2.5m buy-to-let tax fraud

7 Sep 2009

A Nottingham accountant was jailed for eight years today for heading up a conspiracy to steal £2.5m in a buy-to-let tax fraud.
Advisers face £5k fines over tax loopholes

3 Sep 2009

Pension advisers could face fines of up to £5,000 if they fail to disclose tax avoidance measures they take to reduce the impact of the special annual allowance measures introduced in the Budget.
Aegon launches adviser website on pension reforms

8 Sep 2009

Aegon has launched a microsite aimed at helping advisers and employers prepare for the Government’s 2012 pension reforms.
Aegon produces protection video

2 Sep 2009

Aegon has produced a business protection video in a bid to highlight the risks associated with not having appropriate cover in place.
Africa Invest abandons fund launch

3 Sep 2009

Africa Invest has abandoned the launch of the Africa transformational agri fund following the withdrawal of a major investor.
Aifa defends John Gummer's pay

8 Sep 2009

Aifa director general Chris Cummings has defended Aifa chairman John Gummer's remuneration after it was revealed that he earns nearly £700 an hour.
Aifa to "lobby hard" for exam alternative

3 Sep 2009

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers says it will continue to lobby the FSA for the introduction of work-based assessments following the publication of the QCF level four draft core units.
Alternative thinking

3 Sep 2009
Ashburton promotes Alan Le Maistre to assistant investment manager

4 Sep 2009

Ashburton has promoted Alan Le Maistre to assistant investment manager within the European equity team.
Avis joins Canada Life Group Insurance as sales and marketing director

7 Sep 2009
Aviva offers group business optional tele-interview

2 Sep 2009

Aviva is introducing a new optional tele-interview for group protection customers.
Aviva tests writing protection policies in trust

3 Sep 2009

Aviva is running a pilot scheme to write protection policies in trust for IFAs' clients.
Axa Elevate's McMahon switches roles

2 Sep 2009

Axa Distribution Service managing director Paul McMahon is to become managing director of corporate benefits passing responsibility for the Elevate wrap to Marc Davies.
Axa Framlington appoints Beveridge as head

3 Sep 2009
Axa Framlington CEO to retire

3 Sep 2009

Axa Framlington chief executive Robert Kyprianou is to retire by the end of the year after 10 years with the company.
Axa looking at corporate wrap launch

4 Sep 2009

Axa is considering launching a corporate wrap to sit alongside its Elevate platform.
Balance shifts from debt to repayment

3 Sep 2009

Net repayment of debt outweighed net lending to individuals in July for the first time since records began, falling to -£600m from £200m in June.
Bank may penalise central reserve hoarders

7 Sep 2009

The Bank of England may penalise hoarders of any quantitative easing benefits by making the central bank’s rates negative.
Banking supervisor Adams to head FSA retail division

3 Sep 2009

Julian Adams is to replace Sheila Nicoll as director of retail firms at the FSA.
Banks are forecast to make foray into wrap

3 Sep 2009

High-street banks could be be the next players to enter the wrap market.
Banks cutting out advisers

3 Sep 2009

I am not given to writing to the letters pages but I am so incensed with recent goings-on in the mortgage market and the total insensitivity of the FSA that I feel I have to express my anger.
Barclays' PPI appeal starts today

7 Sep 2009

Barclays' appeal to the Competition Appeal Tribunal against the Competition Commissions decision to ban point of sale payment protection insurance starts today.
Bill Vasilieff

3 Sep 2009
BNP Paribas appoints FundQuest CEO

2 Sep 2009

BNP Paribas Investment Partners has announced the appointment of Charlotte Dennery as CEO of FundQuest.
Body found in search for David Seaton

3 Sep 2009

Police in Cornwall have recovered a man's body from the beach near Kilkhampton, Bude which they suspect could be that of Rowanmoor Pensions managing director David Seaton.
Body found on beach confirmed as David Seaton

8 Sep 2009

Coroners have confirmed that the body found on the beach near Kilkhampton, Bude last Tuesday is that of Rowanmoor Pensions managing director David Seaton.
Bravura earnings dip 13 per cent

2 Sep 2009

Bravura Solutions has recorded a 13 per cent drop in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation and a 2 per drop in revenue for the financial year ending June 30.
Bravura Solutions appoints life and pensions product manager

7 Sep 2009

Bravura Solutions has appointed ex-Barclays Wealth associate director Kevan Ward as its life and pensions product manager.
Britannia International - 6 Year Annual Return - Guaranteed Capital Bond Issue 2

4 Sep 2009

Britannia International6 Year Annual Return - Guaranteed Capital Bond Issue 2
Brooks Macdonald acquires Lawrence House Fund Managers

7 Sep 2009

Wealth manager Brooks Macdonald Group has acquired Canterbury based Lawrence House Fund Managers.
BSA hits out at proposed FSA clampdown

7 Sep 2009

Building societies will not be able to compete with banks’ mortgage businesses if the FSA’s proposals for mutual regulation are passed, warns the Building Societies Association.
Cameron pledges to cut ministerial salaries by 5 per cent

8 Sep 2009

Conservative leader David Cameron has pledged to cut ministerial salaries by 5 per cent as part of a range of cost-cutting measures for the public sector announced today.
Canada Life appoints new sales and marketing director

7 Sep 2009

Canada Life Group Insurance has appointed Paul Avis as its sales and marketing director.
Canary channel

3 Sep 2009

I have some rather disturbing news. I have just been to Canary Wharf and met the FSA to discuss the retail distribution review and its potential impact on protection and the role of income protection in the protection hierarchy.
Cavanagh announces partnership with Bar Council- profits down 35 per cent

2 Sep 2009
Cazenove Absolute UK Dynamic to be capped

8 Sep 2009
CBI blasts Tobin tax

4 Sep 2009

The Confederation of British Industry has dismissed Lord Turner's idea of introducing a Tobin tax on financial transactions and criticised him for taking a moralistic stance against the banking industry.
Chinese bubble talk ‘unfounded’, says Allianz Global Investors

7 Sep 2009

The Chinese market correction was long overdue but rumours of a Chinese bubble are unfounded, according to Allianz RCM China fund manager Christina Chung.
CML in Euro warning

3 Sep 2009

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has warned the European Commission to concentrate on macro-economic policies rather than retail mortgage regulation. It has warned of "harmful, unintended consequences" on the UK economy if it conflicts with FSA proposals. The CML also warns the FSA should not press ahead with plans to restrict lending by building societies before completing its mortgage market review.
Commercial vehicle

3 Sep 2009
Complaints to advisers fall 63% - bank complaints rise

3 Sep 2009

Overall complaints to IFAs, financial advisers and non-advised arrangers plummeted from 46,529 in the first half of 2006 to just 17,173 in the second half of 2008.
Consumers confident in ability to save

8 Sep 2009

Consumers believe they would know how to start a nest egg should they find themselves in receipt of £1,000, according to a poll conducted as part of Financial Planning Week.
Corporate bonds top fund sales league again

3 Sep 2009

The Europe excluding UK sector was the least popular for investors in July, according to figures from the Investment Management Association.
Court to decide on expat pensions

2 Sep 2009

The European Court of Human Rights will today decide whether the pensions of thousands of Britons who retire abroad should increase with inflation.
Coventry pulls out of equity-release sales

3 Sep 2009

Coventry Building Society suspended equity-release lending last week, blaming increased costs.
Critical changes

3 Sep 2009

Sales of critical-illness insurance plans have fallen dramatically in recent years. This is partly a result of economic turmoil and also because a large proportion of consumers who are receptive to the CI message have already purchased.
Darling confident of global recovery in 2010

4 Sep 2009

The Chancellor Alistair Darling says he is confident that there will be a global recovery in 2010.
Darling warns G20 stimulus must continue

3 Sep 2009
Dear Chancellor...Whatever happened to simplification, Alistair?

3 Sep 2009
Direct response

3 Sep 2009
Dollar-hedged share class gets Martin Currie go-ahead

3 Sep 2009
DWP doubling auto-enrol timescale to 2015

3 Sep 2009

The Government is looking to push back the final deadline for employees to be auto-enrolled into personal accounts from April 2014 to October 2015, Money Marketing understands.
Enter the dragon

3 Sep 2009

The latest series of Dragons' Den is well into its stride and for me it is compulsive viewing. After each episode I think how I would pitch the typical financial advice model as a scaleable business but I am not hopeful of securing an investment.
Equitable Life announces board changes

3 Sep 2009

Equitable Life has announced the appointment of two new non-executive directors.
Every Which? way to lose

3 Sep 2009

Among the many things I have in common with IFAs is a love of the consumer group Which?
Final days of final salary as liabilities top £1tn

3 Sep 2009

Final-salary pension liabilities have topped £1tn, according to Aon Consulting estimates.
Finance sector recruitment up 1%

8 Sep 2009

Recruitment in the UK finance and business sector moved into positive territory for the first time this quarter since the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Firms wait for cost decisions after Japan election

3 Sep 2009

Advisers and fund managers say the Democratic party's landslide victory in the Japanese general elections has not changed the immediate investment outlook.
Fit for the future

3 Sep 2009

When the Institute of Financial Planning conference committee met nearly 12 months ago, it was, for a change, quite easy to think through an appropriate theme for our annual conference. While thinking this through, it would have been difficult to predict the type of year that we have all just experienced.
Fitch retains negative outlook for reinsurers

2 Sep 2009

Fitch Ratings has retained its negative credit ratings outlook for the global reinsurance sector adding reinsurers could be forced to operate with weaker capital bases for a prolonged period of time.
Five-year high for property rise

3 Sep 2009

House prices in England and Wales rose in 1.7 per cent in July, the highest level in five years, according to the Land Registry. Prices rose by 1.7 per cent in July 2009, after Nationwide's August index shows a rise of 1.6 per cent.
Fixed rates up after six months of 0.5% BBR

8 Sep 2009

Every range of fixed rate mortgage rates have seen an average increase over the last six months while base rate has been at its all-time low.
Flipping the figures

3 Sep 2009

This has been really rather a remarkable summer, markets-wise. By the middle of last week, the FTSE 100 index was flirting with 5,000 - a level not seen since the dark days of last autumn. The recovery from lows of less than six months ago has been a staggering 40 per cent. In the US, it has been even greater. If this truly has been only a bear market rally, then you still would have been very wrong to ignore it.
Fourth rise halves annual price fall

3 Sep 2009

Nationwide statistics reveal that the fourth consecutive monthly property price rise has more than halved the annual decline.
Friends chief Trevor Matthews calls for degree level qualifications for advisers

8 Sep 2009

Friends Provident chief executive Trevor Matthews has called for the minimum qualification standard for financial advisers to be raised to QCF level six, equivalent to a bachelor degree.
Friends Provident enhances group IP

8 Sep 2009

Friends Provident has enhanced its group income protection product by increasing standard maximum benefits and introducing Onetouch underwriting.
Fry role at Apollo

3 Sep 2009

Apollo Multi-Asset Management has appointed former Crosby Asset Management chief executive Simon Fry as non-executive chairman. CAM terminated its joint venture with Apollo last week.
FSA bans Financial Advantage Limited

7 Sep 2009

The FSA has cancelled the permission of Financial Advantage Limited to carry on regulated activities after the firm failed to pay fees and levies of £1,692.
FSA bans Moorley from running a network

3 Sep 2009

The FSA has banned the former chief executive of defunct mortgage network Premier Network Group from carrying out a similar role, ruling that he lacked competence and capability.
FSA fines Barclays £2.45m

8 Sep 2009

The FSA has fined Barclays Capital Securities and Barclays Bank £2.45m for failing to provide accurate transaction reports and for serious weaknesses in systems and controls.
FSA fines stockbroker for allowing insider dealing

2 Sep 2009

The FSA has fined a former stockbroker £20,000 for failing to prevent a suspicious client from insider dealing.
FSA is off the risk scale

3 Sep 2009

I have received an email flyer from whizz people who train financial advisers.
FSA small sipp provider review uncovers TCF concerns

4 Sep 2009
FSA stress-testing Lloyds' plans to sell off insurers

3 Sep 2009

The FSA is reportedly stress-testing Lloyds Banking Group's plans to raise capital by launching a rights issue and selling off its insurance businesses.
FSSC calls on IFAs for RDR consultation

2 Sep 2009

The Financial Services Skills Council has launched of an intensive consultation period on the impending investment qualifications as it sets dates for its UK RDR roadshow.
FTSE edges nearer 5,000

8 Sep 2009

The FTSE 100 edged nearer the 5,000 barrier today, a level last hit in October last year.
Future Capital Partners appoints former RBS managing director

7 Sep 2009

Future Capital Partners has announced the appointment of Trevor Castledine as its new chief operating officer.
Garratt to launch UK residential property fund

7 Sep 2009
Get ready for the retirement age rise

3 Sep 2009

Advisers with clients hoping to take early retirement or to start drawing benefits from their personal pension before the age of 55 may need to take action before changes to the normal minimum pension age on April 6, 2010.
Gilliat launches first structured product

7 Sep 2009

Gilliat Financial Solutions, the new structured product business run by ex-Keydata consultant Adrian Neave has launched its first structured product.
Gilliat’s Neave hints at structured funds launch

8 Sep 2009

Gilliat Financial Solutions managing director Adrian Neave says the firm is actively working on possible ideas for a structured funds launch.
Government launches mortgage aid website

8 Sep 2009

The Government has launched a mortgage aid website for homeowners struggling to meet loan repayments.
Halifax may shut agency counters

3 Sep 2009

Halifax is considering closing all its 300 counters in estate agencies, solicitors and financial advisers' offices, with 26 counters already scheduled for closure.
Hargreaves Lansdown reveals 20% leap in profits

2 Sep 2009

Hargreaves Lansdown has announced a 20 per cent increase in underlying profits for the financial year.
Henderson confident of keeping Star staff

3 Sep 2009

Henderson Group chief executive Andrew Formica does not expect to lose any New Star fund managers in the coming weeks.
How should FSA fees be calculated?

2 Sep 2009

Last week it emerged the FSA is looking at basing adviser fees on income rather than the number of approved persons at a firm, but will this benefit your business or mean you pay more?
HSBC Exchange Traded Funds - FTSE 100 ETF

2 Sep 2009

HSBC Exchange Traded FundsFTSE 100 ETF
HSBC Global Asset Management - Capital Protected Plan Isa 17

4 Sep 2009

HSBC Global Asset ManagementCapital Protected Isa Plan
HSBC launch 1.99% mortgage

2 Sep 2009

HSBC has launched a 1.99 per cent mortgage for borrowers with 40 per cent equity.
HSBC plans bond tracker fund

3 Sep 2009

HSBC Global Asset Management managing director of UK wholesale Andy Clark says the firm is looking to add a bond fund to its range of trackers.
Huge personal losses at Towergate

3 Sep 2009

Towergate executive chairman Peter Cullum may have personally lost £17m in the pre-pack administration of Towergate Financial Services, according to reports. Chairman Patrick Snowball is believed to have lost £600,000 of his own money, according to reports in the Independent on Sunday.
Iceland to pay back cash to UK

3 Sep 2009

The Icelandic parliament has voted to repay more than £3bn to the UK and Dutch governments for the money they spent compensating savers in the Icelandic banks.
IFP wants regulator to rethink fee plan based on income

3 Sep 2009

The FSA is being asked to look again at plans to restructure adviser fees on income rather than number of approved persons.
Insuring good health

3 Sep 2009

The private health industry should be cheered by a recent survey that suggested the majority of Tory MPs would support tax relief for private medical insurance. But if the idea is ever to become policy, providers need to show that insured health solutions, more than just a perk, actually make citizens more productive.
Investors shun equities for bonds

4 Sep 2009
Japanese exports fall and confidence declines

8 Sep 2009
JPM to merge health funds

3 Sep 2009

JP Morgan Asset Management is to merge its offshore global healthtech and global life sciences funds into a new healthcare vehicle.
JPMorgan Asset Management - Multi-Asset Income Fund

2 Sep 2009

JPMorgan Asset ManagementMulti-Asset Income Fund
Jupiter to launch two new funds for Gibbs

4 Sep 2009

Jupiter is launching an international financials and global absolute return fund for Philip Gibbs.
L&G plans to join master trust trend

3 Sep 2009

Legal & General is looking to follow Xafinity into the multi-employer trust-based pension market and predicts an explosion of similar launches from rival providers.
Lenders likely to lose fraud cases in court

3 Sep 2009
Level annuity rates steady but smokers' rates plunge

3 Sep 2009

Level annuity rates remained steady over the last month but smokers' rates plummeted, research by Alexander Forbes Annuity Bureau has found.
Life offices concerned at prospect of charge-capping

3 Sep 2009

Standard Life is concerned that the Government may look at imposing charge caps on group personal pensions to prevent employees losing out by saving in these schemes instead of personal accounts.
Majority of pre-retirees cannot afford to retire, says MetLife

8 Sep 2009

Only two in every five people near retirement age can afford to retire and live comfortably, according to MetLife research.
Making allowances

3 Sep 2009
Manager focus: Neil Pegrum

3 Sep 2009
Merchant Securities acquires Cavendish Young

7 Sep 2009

Investment management firm Merchant Securities has acquired London-based IFA and wealth management company Cavendish Young from founder and managing director Mark Estcourt.
Mixed bag of complaints

8 Sep 2009

Figures from the FSA have revealed that the number of income protection complaints has almost trebled between 2006 and 2008, but critical illness complaints dropped 29 per cent.
Money Marketing launches Retirement Strategy

3 Sep 2009

Money Marketing has launched a new publication, Retirement Strategy, free with this week's issue, focusing on advice issues affecting the pre- and at-retirement market.
Mortgage products drop 78% in year, says Mortgage Brain

8 Sep 2009

Mortgage products available through Mortgage Brain have shrunk by 78 per cent over the last 12 months.
Mott says UK is set for period of anaemic growth

7 Sep 2009

PSigma income manager Bill Mott believes that the UK has avoided ‘financial Armageddon’ and is set for anaemic growth over the next five years.
Munich Re to refresh company logo/website

7 Sep 2009

Munich Re is refreshing its global reinsurance brand and launching a website for its UK operations.
Nearly 80% of IFAs will remain independent, says Teamspirit

4 Sep 2009

Nearly 80 per cent of advisers are committed to remaining independent going forward, research by Teamspirit reveals.
Nearly half of over 50s Isa savers plan to invest up to new limit

2 Sep 2009

Forty-four per cent of current Isa investors over 50 plan to invest up to their new £10,200 Isa limit, research by Legal & General has found.
Network Data mansion sold

8 Sep 2009

The administrators of former mortgage network Network Data have sold its mansion headquarters to a wedding planning firm.
New signs of German economic recovery

8 Sep 2009
Nick Carter appointed as general counsel to Pada

7 Sep 2009

Pada has appointed Nick Carter as its general counsel.
Nucleus expands investment operations team

3 Sep 2009

Nucleus has appointed Alliance Trust Savings director of operations Kevin Maginnis as its investment operations manager.
Old Mutual friend

3 Sep 2009

The bond market remains a hot topic in investment circles and I have recently had two very interesting conversations with Stewart Cowley, head of fixed interest at Old Mutual and manager of the Old Mutual global strategic bond fund.
One in 10 FTSE250 companies worth less than their pension deficits

7 Sep 2009

One in 10 FTSE250 companies have deficits larger than their stock market value, and only 20 firms are committed to final salary pension schemes, according to a report from Pension Capital Strategies.
One in four people rely on lottery for financial success

7 Sep 2009

One in four Brits think a lottery win is the best chance to improve their financial situation.
One in six sub-prime portfolios 30% in arrears

2 Sep 2009

More than 30 per cent of loans within a sixth of sub-prime securitised mortgage portfolios are in arrears.
Para service is key for 2plan

3 Sep 2009

2plan made a loss of £1.86m for 2008, compared with a loss of £1.44m incurred by the IFA firm in 2007.
Park Row close to bulk transfer deal

4 Sep 2009

Royal Liver is close to agreeing a bulk transfer of Park Row advisers and business activities to another firm.
Parliamentary committee chair calls for public sector pension cap

8 Sep 2009

Work and Pensions Committee chairman Terry Rooney says the pensions of high-earning public sector workers should be capped at £50,000.
Pension Corporation plans £400m cash call

4 Sep 2009

Pension Corporation is reportedly planning to bring in up to £400m from new and existing investors in a third round of capital raising.
Personal accounts boosting GPP interest

3 Sep 2009

Richard Jacobs Pension and Trustee Services director Richard Jacobs says he has seen a significant rise in enquiries about group personal pension schemes, driven by increasing awareness of personal accounts.
Perspective receives £6.5m cash injection from Lloyds

8 Sep 2009

IFA consolidator Perspective Financial Group has received a £6.5m cash injection from Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets.
Pioneer Friendly Society - Bills & Things

2 Sep 2009

Pioneer Friendly Society Bills & Things
Platforms push for FSA clarity

3 Sep 2009

Providers are urging the FSA to speed up the delivery of its platform paper so it arrives in time to inform their response to the retail distribution review.
Praemium to offer managed fund trading facility in UK next year

7 Sep 2009

Praemium is offering V-Wrap users in Australia access to Powerwrap Ltd’s managed fund trading functionality, with a view of introducing it into the UK next year.
Prime securitised arrears double

3 Sep 2009

Three-month arrears within prime UK residential mortgage-backed securities doubled over the last 12 months and are set to continue rising, according to figures from Moody's.
Projections to plummet on pensions

3 Sep 2009

Over a million people could see big falls in their projected pensions as a result of imminent changes to annual pension statements.
Property sales dip in August but up on 2008, says NAEA

3 Sep 2009

The number of property sales per estate agency branch dipped between July and August this year but were up on 2008 figures, the National Association of Estate Agents reports.
Rathbones to extend discretionary service to smaller portfolios

3 Sep 2009

Rathbones is launching a new unitised portfolio service for IFAs seeking to outsource some or all of their clients’ investment management.
Remove MPs' long stop

3 Sep 2009

I was interested in the decision by the Conservative Shadow Cabinet not to support a long stop on financial services business.
Retirement Strategy: Leader

3 Sep 2009
Room at the top

3 Sep 2009

An interesting trend has emerged in the past couple of years in the protection market as the traditional life offices that have dominated the sector for so long are gradually losing market share to newer providers.
Rowanmoor managing director David Seaton reported missing

2 Sep 2009

Rowanmoor managing director David Seaton has been reported missing to the police.
Royal Liver mulls Park Row future

3 Sep 2009

Royal Liver is considering the future of its investment in Park Row in the strongest indication yet that it could be looking to offload the business.
Royal London Asset Management and FSA release warnings over unregulated firm

8 Sep 2009

Royal London Asset Management and the Financial Services Authority have released statements to investors about an unregulated firm calling themselves the Royal London Investment Group.
Sandler lined up for executive chair role at Pearl

8 Sep 2009

Northern Rock chairman Ron Sandler has been lined up as Pearl Group's new executive chairman, according to reports.
Sanlam UK records 65% drop in profit

3 Sep 2009

South African financial services group Sanlam has reported a 65 per cent drop in net operating profit for its UK business during the first half of the year.
Savers could pay for Turner's Tobin tax

3 Sep 2009

The Investment Management Association has warned that Lord Turner's bank tax proposal could end being paid for by savers.
Savills FS results hit by property doldrums

3 Sep 2009

Savills financial services arm was hit by the property market downturn and made a loss of £2.1m for the first half of this year.
Scot Prov pays 93% of CI claims

3 Sep 2009

Scottish Provident paid out 93 per cent of all critical illness claims made between January and June this year, up six per cent on the same period last year.
Sector Investment Management - Junior Mining Fund

2 Sep 2009

Sector Investment ManagementJunior Mining Fund
Sense of release

3 Sep 2009

Ship director general Andrea Rozario says the industry needs to change its perceptions of the product.
Sesame's Cupis appointed to AMI board

7 Sep 2009

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries has appointed Sesame managing director of mortgages and general insurance John Cupis to its board.
Seven Dials Fund Management - Lightstone Prime High Street Fund

4 Sep 2009

Seven Dials Fund ManagementLightstone Prime High Street Fund
'Shared-ownership deals lack logic'

3 Sep 2009

Brokers believe Halifax's intermediary-only shared ownership scheme is "illogical" due to newbuild lending restrictions.
Should child trust funds face the chop?

7 Sep 2009

With tighter public spending expected from the Government this Autumn, the child trust fund could be one of the "less unattractive" options for cuts, says Institute of Fiscal Studies deputy director Carl Emmerson.
Smoke signals

3 Sep 2009
Specialist subjects

3 Sep 2009
Swip duo move in as team of four switch to Alliance Trust

3 Sep 2009

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has appointed Luke Hickmore and Neil Murray as fund managers on its investment-grade portfolios following the departure of a team of four to Alliance Trust.
Swip launches three emerging markets funds

3 Sep 2009
Switzerland signs up to tax exchange data

7 Sep 2009

A protocol which delivers comprehensive exchange of information up to OECD and international tax standards has been signed by Switzerland and the UK today.
Symponia hits out at sliding scale switch for care

3 Sep 2009

Specialist IFA Symponia has hit out at the Government for backtracking on plans to charge a flat fee to help fund the cost of their long-term care.
Tenon Group non-executive director McFetrich dies

8 Sep 2009

Tenon Group non-executive director Alan McFetrich has died.
The final countdown

3 Sep 2009
The flexi future

3 Sep 2009
The Mortgage Alliance launches TMA Large Loans

7 Sep 2009

The Mortgage Alliance has announced the launch of TMA Large Loans through largemortgageloans.com.
The Nottingham links up with M2 for pension and investment advice

7 Sep 2009

The Nottingham has linked up with M2 Financial to offer building society customers whole of market advice on pensions, investment, protection and insurance.
The Pensions Regulator appoints two new actuaries

3 Sep 2009

The Pensions Regulator has appointed Andrew Young and Simon Wasserman to its team of actuaries.
The third dimension

3 Sep 2009
To cap or not to cap?

3 Sep 2009

Standard Life is concerned the Government may look to impose some from of charge cap on group personal pensions in parallel with the launch of personal accounts.
Tories vow to clampdown on "fat cat" pensions

7 Sep 2009

The Conservatives have pledged to clampdown on "fat cat" pensions within the public sector if they win the next election.
Turner backs calls for banks to have "living wills"

3 Sep 2009

FSA chairman Lord Turner has backed international efforts to force the biggest banks to draw up “living wills”.
UK debt continues to slow

2 Sep 2009

Accumulation of UK debt slowed again in July as both secured and unsecured lending reduced.
UK zeros sector axed

3 Sep 2009

The Investment Management Association is to close the UK zeros sector from the end of September.
Which? way for FSA to get tough on the bad banks

3 Sep 2009

After ignoring the concerns of the IFA community over banking advice for years, perhaps the weight of the Financial Ombudsman Service and consumer group Which? can spur the FSA to action.
Whitbread latest to shut DB scheme to new and existing members

7 Sep 2009

Whitbread, owners of Costa Coffee and Premier Inns, is to close its final-salary pension scheme to both new and existing staff.
Why is the FSA deaf to calls for work-based RDR assessments?

7 Sep 2009
Wrap margins are starting to widen for IFAs

3 Sep 2009

Nucleus says new data shows that advisers are now taking the lion's share of the margin on its wrap while asset managers are receiving a smaller proportion.
Your Strategy

3 Sep 2009

This week, Money Marketing launches a new monthly publication, Retirement Strategy, focusing on the pre- and at-retirement market.

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