Lloyds Banking Group is to cut 1,300 jobs across its group functions, retail, group operations and wealth and international divisions.

Royal Liver is to move out of its iconic Liverpool headquarters as part of its merger with rival Royal London, resulting in the loss of up to 222 jobs including 26 from Royal Liver's asset management business.

Fears about the markets following last week's sell-off and the US credit downgrade will no doubt dominate clients' concerns this week. However, the weekend papers also featured warnings about pension growth predictions and annuities, an analysis of absolute...

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Henderson's Bill McQuaker on why the market has sold off

At times like these, the common message to clients is not to panic. Is that what your peers are doing this time round, or are any big changes being made?

The government could scrap the 50p top rate of income tax within the next two years - possibly replacing it with a 45p rate - according to reports.

Updated: The FTSE dropped more than 3% in the first six minutes of trade on Friday as it tracked US and Asian markets sharply lower amid the ongoing global sell-off.

Brooks Macdonald Asset Management has agreed to purchase the investment management activities of national law firm Clarke Willmott in a deal worth up to £6m.

The overwhelming majority of independent financial advisers (IFA) support the Treasury Select Committee's (TSC) call for a 12-month delay to the implementation of the retail distribution review (RDR).