Syndicate Asset Management has agreed to pay compensation to three directors of its subsidiaries after settling an employment dispute.

Expected healthy growth in US house prices in 2010 bodes well for the UK market, figures suggest.

Advisers are being warned ‘alternative' assessment methods proposed by the FSA as a different route to QCF level four will be just as rigorous as written exams.

UK house prices climbed 1% in December compared with the previous month, marking the sixth consecutive month-on-month increase, according to the Halifax.

Jerry Levin, who sold Time Warner to AOL, has described the $124bn deal as the 'worst of the century', but it's a crown for which there is plenty of competition, the Telegraph writes.

Just over 10,000 people with untaxed income hidden in offshore accounts have taken advantage of the Government's latest amnesty.

Independent advice firms could be forced to offer restricted services unless the FSA scales back its definition for retail investment products in the RDR, the Association of IFAs (AIFA) says.

The FSA has hired a consumer adviser in a bid to strengthen its understanding of consumer issues.

Labour's 50p top tax rate will remain for five more years, breaking a pledge that the £2billion-a-year raid on earnings would be temporary.

Simon Chamberlain, chief executive of Succession Advisory Services, says if anyone had mentioned IFA consolidation in early 2009, it was only as an unintended consequence of the credit crunch...