Small businesses are set to grow despite the recession with half planning to expand in the next year, according to research from Barclays.

HSBC Global Asset Management has strengthened its UK wholesale distribution team with three news hires.

The UK life insurance sector still faces a tough future as sales slump across the board, but there are signs the bottom is in sight.

Lloyds TSB Development Capital (LDC) has paid £42m for a controlling stake in software firm 1st-The Exchange, in the largest institutional buyout by a private equity group this year.

Marketing Innovation Forum is offering free sales advice to IFAs and mortgage brokers.

The Manchester branch of the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) has appointed the owner of Smart Financial Planning as its new chairman.

Millions of British adults have no idea which investor is looking after their pension, or how that money is being invested, new research has shown.

Regular communication between IFAs and their clients is the secret to maintaining healthy retirement savings, research suggests.

Consumer confidence in the savings market is up to its highest level since June 2008 but many are still not saving, according to Nationwide.

The FSA has awarded around a fifth of its workforce a 10pc pay rise to compensate them for the regulator's decision to close its final salary scheme to existing members, according to The Telegraph.