Aegon-owned Origen says it sees solicitors as the "gatekeepers" to new business after entering a strategic partnership with legal network LawNet.

Tenet's mortgage network LIME has signed a strategic alliance with The Whitechurch Network.

The upcoming reversal of the UK's emergency VAT cut could spark a collapse in New Year retail sales and ultimately derail the nation's economic recovery, M&G retail fixed income head Jim Leaviss says.

Follow all the announcements from today's Pre-Budget Report (PBR) as they happen on IFAonline from about 12.30pm.

Incisive Media is pleased to announce the final shortlist for the Professional Adviser Awards 2010.

The FSA says it will not extend its remuneration code for banks to practitioners in other sectors, such as independent financial advisers.

British taxpayers stand behind more than £167bn of toxic assets in the US, Ireland, the Middle East and beyond, it has emerged as the Treasury disclosed details of what Royal Bank of Scotland has dumped in the state insurance scheme for bad debts.

Fears an independent professional standards board (IPSB) would represent another tier of regulation are misplaced, the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) says.

Yorkshire Building Society chief executive Iain Cornish has been appointed chairman of the 12-member Financial Services Practitioner Panel (FSPP).

Professional Adviser is pleased to announce the nominees for its New Fund Launch of the Year award.