PADA chief executive Tim Jones will join Ned Cazalet to speak at the TISA Retirement Savings Challenge conference.

Citigroup plans to cull approximately 53,000 jobs, on top of the 22,000 formerly announced, with London to be badly hit.

Abbey for Intermediaries has introduced a new range of intermediary exclusives available from today.

Living Time will launch fixed-term annuity quotations alongside traditional lifetime annuity rates on 1st-The Exchange's Exweb.

Wealth manager St James's Place says it will make a one-off goodwill payment of £6.9m to clients it recommended invest in AIG Life's frozen Enhanced fund.

Clients are in danger of spending up to a year in inappropriate investments should advisers rely on managed funds to maintain risk profiles, Informed Choice joint managing director Martin Bamford claims.

House sellers are slashing their asking price in an "increasingly desperate" bid to make a sale in extreme market conditions, research suggests.

The price of gold has risen 8% since the start of the credit crunch, in contrast to the ailing FTSE 100 which has plunged 28% in the same period, according to Clerical Medical.

Only a small number of UK IFAs are in a position to implement cost reductions that would help convert a sales deficit into profit, research suggests.

The equity release market will double within five years as the Government becomes "actively engaged" in the sector, a panel of industry experts argues.