The Financial Services Authority was yesterday accused of going too easy on Britain's troubled lenders by testing their financial resilience against unchallenging assumptions, reports The Telegraph .

The Government's anti-forestalling rules for higher rate tax relief are putting SIPPs and smaller pension schemes at a huge disadvantage to larger group schemes, industry experts say.

Friends Provident has launched a web-based tool designed to help advisers writing more protection business online.

The British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (FSC) has warned investors to exercise "extreme caution" in conducting any business with a handful of investment firms.

The FTSE 100 is off to a strong start this morning, rocketing 44.90 points (1.02%) to 4432.44, following last night's triple-figure point gain on Wall Street.

Around 15% of financial advisers are continuing to shun technology by running paper-only practices, a study suggests.

The move to fee-based business models and the focus on understanding and communicating risk has driven many advisers to look for tools to help support them in generating accurate, professional financial plans.

iShares has listed an ETF based on German short-term government bonds on Borsa Italiana . ...

ETFs are more frequently used as long-term buy-and-hold investments rather than short-term tactic...

A laptop containing the unencrypted personal data of 109,000 Pensions Trust members has been stolen from software provider NorthgateArinso.