Ashcourt Rowan has appointed former Parmenion sales director Paul Miles as director of intermediary services.
High street sales remained sluggish in April, despite the volume of sales rising compared with last year, said the CBI.
Morningstar has launched a new investment forecasting tool for investors in an effort to plug what it warns will be a post-RDR advice gap.
Ascentric is launching a new report tool providing advisers with extensive coverage of client portfolio data including valuations and wrapper performance.
A growing number of businesses are being forced by the Financial Ombudsman to pay out compensation for treating customers poorly.
Bestinvest has launched its range of model portfolios on Ascentric in a move which allows the firm to offer several of its discretionary solutions to IFA partners.
Gold advanced to a record after the Federal Reserve pledged to keep interest rates near zero to bolster the recovery, weakening the dollar and boosting demand for precious metals as a store of value.
Asian markets rallied overnight after the Federal Reserve indicated it will not hike interest rates.
Economists react to today's ONS estimate of UK GDP growth in the first three months of this year...
The UK economy grew by 0.5% in the first quarter of the year, down slightly on economists' forecasts, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in its first estimate today.