Fresh fears of eurozone debt contagion hit global markets today, with the largest European indices suffering large losses.

Reading across the RDR's independent and restricted advice labels to the mortgage market will confuse clients, the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) warns.

Friends Provident head of protection sales Ed Stuart-Brown has left the provider to join network Intrinsic Financial Services as group protection director.

Confusing and inflexible financial products, not consumer apathy, are the principal reasons behind an estimated £300bn savings gap in the UK, research suggests.

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IFA consultancy and consolidation vehicle Succession has signed up another three firms as it prepares to acquire a quarter of its 35 members ahead of schedule.

The Irish government will not raise the country's low corporation tax rate in return for an EU-led bailout, as a French official said some view the rate as "almost predatory".

The Association of IFAs (AIFA) has told the FSA there are plenty of "risk indicators" it could use to determine which firms should contribute lower annual fees.

Software provider True Potential has added full fact-finding and risk profiling capabilities to its iPad application for advisers.

The FSA will allow platforms to facilitate the collection of adviser charges, but says this must be done to the same standard as product providers.