This year's Aberdeen UK Platform Awards will once again recognise advisers, large and small, who have achieved excellence in running a platform-enabled business or practice.

Standard Life Investments has appointed Jack Boyce as managing director, head of US distribution in Boston.

The latest figures to be published by the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) present a snapshot of the state of the industry at the end of 2010 and the picture looks optimistic.

Standard Life Investments has launched its Global Emerging Markets Equity Fund aimed at investors looking to broaden their investment universe and diversify their portfolios beyond "global developed markets".

The latest appointments in financial services...

The time it takes the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to give approval to start a new business in the UK has increased significantly in the past nine months, the FT reports.

Bank of Cyprus is set to join the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) to protect 50,000 British savers from its exposure to Greece.

Ashcourt Rowan has appointed Canaccord Genuity as its nominated adviser and broker.

Policymakers at the Bank of England have come under pressure to take action today to 'cushion' the UK's recession-hit economy against further eurozone turmoil, the Guardian reports.

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