The Retail Distribution Review's (RDR's) consumer-heavy mantra will impair the financial advice arena before it strengthens it, according to the ifs School of Finance.

A new training academy hopes to bring fresh blood into the financial services industry by training and mentoring recruits.

Mortgage approvals continued to dive in October and are now 75% down on this time last year, official statistics suggest.

UK consumers are increasingly confused by the Government's muddled policy on savings, according to Aegon's head of pensions development, Rachel Vahey.

Much of the bad news appears to be at the very least priced in to European equity valuations, with volatility measures already at extremes, according to Invesco Perpetual's Jeff Taylor.

REITs and other property securities are likely to provide better yields than direct property over the next year, according to a panel or property and investment firms.

Britons drastically under-insure their home contents by almost £10,000 per household and by £255bn collectively, according to Axa.

A company designed to assist IFAs considering buying another practice or selling up has been launched in response to "growing" M&A activity.

Deflation fears and falling interest rates point to investors favouring bonds over equities and cash into 2009, according to Fidelity's Trevor Greetham.

Nationwide International has changed the savings rates on its Sterling, Euro and US Dollar accounts, following cuts to the UK, eurozone and US base rates.