A financial regulator has issued a Europe-wide investor alert warning of the risks involved with buying complex investment products.

The UK economy will grow by 2.5% this year and again by 2.1% in 2015, according to the National Institute of Social and Economic Research (NIESR).

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Adviser sentiment towards emerging market investment has increased significantly over the last quarter, according to the latest Baring Asset Management Investment Barometer.

Hundreds of millions of pounds of retirement income is being lost as retirees remain stuck in the ‘clearly broken' internal annuity market, MGM Advantage has said.

The interest swap mis-selling redress scheme has now paid out more than £306m to affected small businesses.

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Antony Jenkins, the chief executive of Barclays, has turned down his multi-million pound bonus for 2013 due to the "very significant costs" faced by the bank.

Senior pension industry figures and high level regulators have formed a group dedicated to halting the proliferation of pension liberation.

Insurer Zurich paid out on 94% of its critical illness policy claims last year, up from 90% in 2012, latest statistics show.