Broker activity jumped 50% in January compared with the previous month, the latest Trigold Product Index suggests.

Six in ten advisers are recommending clients invest in property stocks as an income proposition due to their current attractive yields, research suggests.

The current financial pressures facing UK financial advisers "could tempt" them to abandon TCF or commit fraud, the FSA suggests today.

New Star plans to close its troubled Heart of Africa fund due to liquidity issues.

Victims of an overseas share scam encouraging UK investors to buy worthless shares will be reimbursed, the FSA says today.

Barclays' share of the new mortgage market has jumped to 36% from 8% last year, according to its results for 2008.

LV= has created a Marketing Toolkit to help financial advisers revisit their existing clients.

The FTSE 100 has fallen almost 1% this morning despite better than excepted results from Barclays boosting the financials sector.

The ABI has charged IFAs with misjudging the risk of depositors placing money in collapsed bank Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander Isle of Man (KSFIOM).

Schroders is in dispute with its own hedge fund over the fees it is being charged by the fund for holding millions of pounds in cash, The Independent reports.