Personal Touch Directly Authorised (PTDA) has launched its investment and pension proposition to directly authorised firms.

Property prices will fall by 40% from their peak in 2007 unless Government action succeeds in boosting mortgage lending, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).

The ABI has appointed Friends Provident CEO, Trevor Matthews, and Brit Insurance CEO, Dane Douteil, to its board.

US mutual fund manager Vanguard is set to launch a UK funds business - Vanguard Investments UK - as part of its strategy to build an integrated global asset management business.

The New Local Government Network (NLGN) has praised Government proposals which will improve the ability of councils to offer mortgages - an idea the think tank first proposed last year.

Higher rate taxpayers should consider making up any shortfall in their pension fund by transferring cash held in ISAs into a SIPP, according to Killik & Co.

Scottish Widows has reintroduced a 180-day delay period for certain transactions involving the Scottish Widows Life Property Fund.

Job losses will accelerate among UK small and medium-sized businesses in Q1, a Confederation of British Industry (CBI) study suggests.

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) may increase its levy to deal with a growing deficit, reports suggest.

A group of Cambridge entrepreneurs and businessmen are so outraged by the behaviour of the banks they are setting up their own, The Independent reports.