Trading standards want financial watchdog role

The Office of Fair Trading is to investigate the role of IFAs in the misselling of financial services to vulnerable consumers. The inquiry, launched this week, will focus on the selling of banking, credit, insurance, savings and other financial services to elderly and disabled people. It will also cover low-income consumers and people whose first […]

Our page 25 fella is gorgeous pouting Jeff Prestridge, personal finance editor of the Mail on Sunday&#39s Financial Mail. Prestridge amazed friends and colleagues with his stunning success in the battle of the bulge. In celebration, skinny PR person Paul Burgin (5ft 10in, eight stone) is producing a series of personal finance tableware. First item […]

Yorkshire Building Society is relaunching its mortgage range with cuts in fixed rates and a new capped-rate product. Its three-year fixed mortgage is cut to 6.65 per cent from 6.9 per cent for up to 95 per cent loan to value. Its five-year mortgage is cut to 6.95 per cent from 7.15 per cent for […]

Morgan Grenfell Asset Management is returning to the retail market with a protected unit trust modelled on its institutional managed risk equity fund. The All-Weather equity fund aims to provide an element of protection to investors who are seeking exposure to equities but are uncomfort-able with the perceived risk. But the biggest challenge will be […]