There were almost three times as many new income protection (IP) plans launched in the last 12 months than there were new critical illness (CI) products.

A plethora of deals designed to help pursue evaders hiding money offshore are set to be signed by finance ministers in Berlin tomorrow.

Financial advisers are benefiting from the current financial crisis as distrust of the banks is seeing a growing number of people turning to IFAs for help, according to ceo of Capital Asset Management (CAM), Alan Smith.

Redundancies at investment management houses will begin to affect front office operations, Hymans Robertson claims.

Threadneedle is the latest fund house to sign with Novia to have its full range of funds available on the platform.

The investment management industry must get to grips with EU directives quickly and work out its priorities while there is still time to influence them, according to the IMA.

Newly-acquired ETF provider iShares has hired former Invesco Perpetual client guru Julian Hince to step up its engagement with IFAs.

Wrap platform Ascentric has teamed up with the former managing director and joint founder of 1st Software to provide an independent business process review to IFA firms.

The FSA has referred four firms for enforcement in a clampdown on poor arrears handling, while several more firms are currently being assessed for referral.

Standard Life has launched a new onshore tailored investment bond (TIB) aimed at helping advisers cope with regulatory changes including the RDR.