Aegon UK has created two roles in its risk and finance division in a bid to improve returns and de-risk its balance sheet.

Skandia has finally completed the migration of 280,000 active MultiFunds policies to its Skandia Investment Solutions (SIS) platform after a delay of over two years.

England were today drawn with the USA, Slovenia and Algeria in group C for next summer's World Cup in South Africa.

Banks systematically sell products and the RDR will not change that, Sesame Bankhall executive chairman Ivan Martin says.

IFAonline's print title Professional Adviser has linked with the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) to allow advisers reading the publication to accrue CPD points.

The FSA is unlikely to budge on rules forcing financial advisers offering simplified advice to be subject to the same qualification requirements as independent practitioners.

House prices climbed 0.5% last month as the average price approaches 2006 levels, Nationwide says.

Dubai World has begun talks with banks to restructure $26bn (£15.8bn) of debt as the Gulf emirate begins to tackle problems that rattled global stock markets.

The FSSC today published the final standards for the core units that will be in every RDR-compliant qualification developed next year, as well as draft standards for the three specialist units.

The Association of IFAs (AIFA) is calling on the Government to extend its ‘Train to Gain' scheme to the financial advice sector in this month's pre-Budget Report (PBR).