He won’t have any of it (nice, understated chap that he is), but I may just be IFA Peter Chadborn’s worst ever customer.

More than half of the top 1,000 IFA firms in the country are set to finish the year ‘strongly', a study suggests.

The deputy governor of the Bank of England, Charles Bean, has admitted that the recession "highlighted shortcomings" in the Bank's economic forecasting models.

Pimco's Bill Gross, manager of the world's largest bond fund, says quantitative easing has called an end to the 30-year bull market in bonds and labels current monetary policy as a ‘Ponzi scheme'.

Automatic enrolment into workplace pension schemes will only apply when a person earns more than £7,475 per year, a government review has concluded.

Shares pulled back further on Wednesday following a blow for miners and lacklustre performances on Wall Street and in Asia.

The FSA has rejected proposals to base its annual fees for intermediaries on the amount of revenue they receive relative to providers.

A back-office technology solution designed to help product providers update "aging" legacy systems to cope with the onset of adviser charging has been launched.

The FSA has hit out at a number of the "bigger" lenders over their concerns about verifying income for the self-employed or those with irregular earnings.

The CII will press ahead with plans to develop alternative assessments for advisers seeking a non-examination route to the RDR's QCF Level 4 qualification minimum.