Money Marketing
19 December 2007
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A game of two halves
20 Dec 2007
The mortgage market has had a tumultuous year, with the first run on a UK bank in over 140 years and the devastating effects of the credit crunch.
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A quick Goodbye
19 Dec 2007
New Star said goodbye to its joint head of fixed interest this week as Theo Zemek quit the firm to join Axa Investment Managers as global head of fixed interest.
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A shaw thing
20 Dec 2007
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Aifa wants return to polarisation
20 Dec 2007
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Alexander Hall's record week 'is a positive sign for industry'
20 Dec 2007
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Anger as policyholders are left in limbo
20 Dec 2007
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Basinghall looking to expand range of mortgages
20 Dec 2007
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BestInvest gauges demand for Fof offering
20 Dec 2007
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Bill benefits divorcees
20 Dec 2007
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Bolton back in property sector
20 Dec 2007
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Booming income for boutique
20 Dec 2007
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Broker Talkback
20 Dec 2007
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Building societies see November increase in savings but dip in mortgage lending
20 Dec 2007
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Buoys in the bubble
20 Dec 2007
Lower oil prices, the absence of significantly negative financial news, the announcement of the Bush administration's plan to help troubled homeowners and expectations for additional interest rate cuts have helped push US equity prices higher.
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Buy-to-let landlords optimistic about 2008
19 Dec 2007
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Chandos Rose seeking high-calibre staff
20 Dec 2007
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CII and FSSC agree clarity needed over qualifications
20 Dec 2007
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Close call
20 Dec 2007
The new venture capital trust rules are more restrictive than was formerly the case but the best generalist managers should still be able to find qualifying companies with good potential.
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Darling buds of Maia
20 Dec 2007
Chris Ralph, one of the founding partners of multi-manager boutique Maia Capital, says he no longer feels like a small cog in a big machine.
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Davy slams CII transition plan
20 Dec 2007
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Double dividend deal for PSigma Isa package
20 Dec 2007
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Emerging winners
20 Dec 2007
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Festive bargains
20 Dec 2007
Every year, the retailers moan they are having a dreadful Christmas, only for the figures to reveal that sales were not so bad after all. But there are reasons to believe that this Christmas may genuinely be more difficult. Higher oil prices, anaemic real wage growth and a slowing housing market are not the most auspicious conditions.
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Fight the good fight
20 Dec 2007
I went to work last week feeling very bleary eyed after watching the Hatton fight, (nothing to do with the Cobalt Christmas party last week, which I could not possibly talk about) and thought about his amazing spirit when taking on a truly great boxer in his own backyard.
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Fixed-rate fallout could help repay Rock loans
20 Dec 2007
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Friends Prov imposes redemption restrictions on £1.2bn property fund
20 Dec 2007
Friends Provident is to impose a six-month notice period on its £1.2bn property fund due to the current market conditions.
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FSA calls for tougher standards in liquidity discussion paper
19 Dec 2007
The FSA has published a discussion paper reviewing liquidity requirements for banks and building societies, which calls for existing standards to be toughened.
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FSA has lent us its ears but is it really listening?
20 Dec 2007
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FSA issues public censure on mortgage broker
20 Dec 2007
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General store
20 Dec 2007
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GI firms to get £40m levy rebate
20 Dec 2007
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Government issue
20 Dec 2007
It often helps to look at the past year and see how it went. Often, for those of us who work in or write about the financial services industry, it is a case of same old, same old.
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Gross lending falls 8 per cent in November, says CML
20 Dec 2007
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Guaranteed life plans pose threat to trust
20 Dec 2007
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HBOS reveals £180m crunch sum
20 Dec 2007
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Hunters will keep financial services in their sights
20 Dec 2007
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Icob victory for our campaign
20 Dec 2007
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IMA welcomes transparency push in RDR
20 Dec 2007
The Investment Management Association (IMA) has welcomed the FSA’s push for greater transparency as part of its response to the Retail Distribution Review discussion paper.
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Immovable objects
20 Dec 2007
The FSA may have to backtrack on its ruling to allow property funds to hold 100 per cent in direct property after the swathe of redemptions that has hit this market in the past few months proves just how important a buffer of liquidity is in such vehicles.
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Ins and outs
20 Dec 2007
The debate on whether people are better off contracting back into the S2P has been keeping many an actuarial expert awake in recent years.
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Invesco topples Fidelity from top spot
20 Dec 2007
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John Charcol makes 2008 predictions
19 Dec 2007
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Jupiter plans India fund
20 Dec 2007
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Justice at last for pension victims
20 Dec 2007
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King reveals fears over bank failure
20 Dec 2007
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Lighthouse loses legal fight
20 Dec 2007
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Making contact
20 Dec 2007
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Monsoon man for Money Portal
20 Dec 2007
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Mortgage brokers face massive PI rise
20 Dec 2007
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New Star's Zemek takes global role at Axa IM
20 Dec 2007
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Northern exposure
20 Dec 2007
The market got off to a quiet but encouraging start this year but the first rumblings of trouble in US housing market were already audible.
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Norwich Union enhances group income protection product
20 Dec 2007
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Now HMRC loses Countrywide data
20 Dec 2007
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Now T Bailey growth is eight
20 Dec 2007
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NU fined £1.2m for data failings that led to policy frauds
20 Dec 2007
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Only a fifth of lenders have passed on rate cut, says Moneysupermarket.com
21 Dec 2007
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Paper cuts
20 Dec 2007
As an industry, we use a terrifying amount of paper. For as long as I have been involved in technology, the vision of the "paperless office" has been held out as a nirvana that might one day be achieved.
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Pension review
20 Dec 2007
Law-making, market turmoil and constant haranguing were some of the pension themes of the year.
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Peters quits Sesame to join Zurich FS
20 Dec 2007
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Pick of the crunch
20 Dec 2007
What were the big investment themes of 2007 and how have firms fared in the difficult climate? Chris Salih asks four market commentators for their views.
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Pilots show generic advice should be available for all, says Treasury
20 Dec 2007
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Polarised pensions
20 Dec 2007
Everything is relative when it comes to money I guess and in everyday life when we are buying books or going out on a Friday night we pretty much know what's what on the money front.
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Positive response
20 Dec 2007
The Pension Bill 2007 has been published and, as expected, it includes reforms to improve the state pension scheme, introduce personal accounts and propose powers for the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority to design personal accounts.
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PosSol tops table for satisfaction
20 Dec 2007
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Protection review
20 Dec 2007
The last 12 months have seen several significant events which have changed the shape of the protection industry.
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'Providers will take bigger stakes in IFA firms'
20 Dec 2007
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PruProtect is aiming at 10% slice of market
20 Dec 2007
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Prying the lid off the tin
20 Dec 2007
Iread with interest that Nic Cicutti was pleased with his 25-year endowment policy that he took out in 1983. He was surprised that it was actually going to deliver what it said on the tin.
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Purely deal 'highlights difficulties of direct route'
20 Dec 2007
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River swells
20 Dec 2007
Thames River investment director Michael Warren says appointing multi-manager duo Gary Potter and Robert Burdett in March was one of the biggest moves in the firm's history.
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Rock guarantee is widened
20 Dec 2007
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Sanlam Ireland joins EMXCo
20 Dec 2007
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Santander sets up emerging fund
20 Dec 2007
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Search light
20 Dec 2007
What a year we have had in terms of compliance and regulatory activities. We have welcomed the overriding principle of TCF (which friends of mine in an advertising agency say sounds like a girl band), Mifid (a heavy rock band) and the RDR (an American rapper).What on earth will hit us next year?
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Silver lining
20 Dec 2007
One of my favourite Christmas songs sings the praises of silver bells and how they peal out at Christmas. This is not to be confused with jingle bells, which lacks gravitasIn business, we talk of "silver bullet" solutions - magic management ideas to solve a problem at a stroke.
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So the Government does have some Christmas spirit after all
20 Dec 2007
Following reports of a bitter split within the Cabinet over the compensation package for victims of pension scheme collapses, the Government finally relented this week and announced a £2.9bn package for the workers.
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Stirred, not shaken
20 Dec 2007
My adviser has recommended that I transfer all my existing Isa, Pep and unit trust holdings on to something he calls a wrap. It is going to cost me 3 per cent of the value to do this. He says he will then manage my funds for an annual charge of 0.75 per cent. He tells me everyone is doing this and it means I will get better service. What do you think?
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Survey shows IFA support for bringing protection under RDR
20 Dec 2007
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Thames River plans boutique fund with Euro exposure
20 Dec 2007
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The answer lies in the soil
20 Dec 2007
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The cat’s out of the bag
21 Dec 2007
This week saw Bank of England governor let the cat out of the bag that the FSA, BoE and the Treasury all were aware in 2006 they could not deal with a failing UK bank.
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The end of a turbulent year
21 Dec 2007
As greater clarity emerges on exactly what advisers want the outcome of the retail distribution review to be, Aifa has summarised its position into effectively a return to polarisation, which it says could see the number of advisers treble to 100,000.
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The year that fell to earth
20 Dec 2007
You tell us that 2007 wasn't too bad a year.
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Unum changes its group and voluntary critical illness product
19 Dec 2007
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What the tapers say
20 Dec 2007
Some interesting relationships appear when you start comparing the relative tax merits of UK collectives, UK bonds and offshore bonds.
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Which? threatening legal action on NU orphan cash
20 Dec 2007
