A series of workshops run by Aegon Scottish Equitable will look at the essential tools and ideas needed to help advisers develop their individual protection business.

Approximately 88% of Icesave customers have completed the process for compensation from the FSCS, following the closure of their internet bank.

Friends Provident has enhanced its business tracking alert service, enabling advisers to monitor changes as they occur across their entire pipeline.

Pensions campaigner Dr Ros Altmann has called for the introduction of a National Wealth Service with free financial advice health checks to keep savers on the right track.

A tribunal will today hear a legal challenge to the merger of HBOS and Lloyds TSB from a group of customers and senior businessmen.

The FTSE soared in early trading following a slump on Friday sparked by fears of more than half a million job cuts in the US.

Sir Sean Connery has given his backing to a legal bid to halt the merger of HBOS and Lloyds TSB, campaigners said, The Telegraph reports.

New Star founder and chairman John Duffield will leave the ailing fund manager, the FT reports.

A typical eighteen year old will need just over £1.7m to sustain an average standard of living until death, according to a survey by Axa designed to shock people into saving.

With all the doom and gloom of the credit crunch, highlighted so visibly by the recent demise of one of our best known high street retailers, you'd be forgiven for wanting to hibernate this winter, hide under a duvet and wake up when it's all over.