Fixed rate mortgages have seen their popularity fall significantly since the Bank of England's shock rate cut last month, new research suggests.

Legal & General Mortgage Club has partnered with Connect Mortgage Group to provide its directly authorised members with outsourced support services.

Barack Obama's first task as US president is to return confidence to the financial system and to the economy, and we can expect significant fiscal stimulus in 2009, according to Newton Investment Management's Simon Laing.

Prudential UK has appointed Barry O'Dwyer managing director of retail life and pensions.

The UK's Investment Management Association has backed the Committee of European Securities Regulators' (Cesr) advice on how to implement the management company passport.

Abbey for Intermediaries and Alliance & Leicester Intermediary Sales have revealed full details of their merged intermediary team.

UK industrial and manufacturing output fell further in September, according to the ONS.

The widespread redundancies now gripping the City of London has already claimed victims in the historically impervious fund manager profession, high-profile investment adviser Darius McDermott claims.

Advisers give too much weight to charges when assessing unit-linked guarantees and often fail to understand their value as a hedge against outliving retirement savings, a study suggests.

Two mortgage brokers have been banned by the FSA for putting their clients at risk of receiving an unsuitable mortgage.