Gordon Brown has been accused of attempting to blackmail Tony Blair into dropping Adair Turner's revolutionary pension reform proposals.

Incisive Media has officially launched Adviserhound.com, the industry's first vertical search engine designed to cater for the day-to-day business needs of financial advisers.

Peter Hargreaves, the outgoing chief executive of Hargreaves Lansdown, believes smaller investors will struggle to get advice post-RDR.

Standard Life today says it expects a net headcount reduction of some 500 employees over the next 15 months as it rolls out the second phase of its group restructure.

Former Axa Framlington CEO Robert Kyprianou has joined Gartmore as an independent non-executive director.

Hargreaves Lansdown profits increased 18% to more than £86m in the year to 30 June as net business inflows soared.

Royal London Group lost £2m in the first half of 2010, compared with an £18m profit last year.

India's economy grew at its fastest rate for more than two years in Q2, official data reveals.

The number of FSA staff earning more than £100,000 has almost trebled in the past four years.

Britain's biggest bank is receiving more than 2,000 complaints from angry customers every day, it admitted last night.