The Financial Services Skills Council (FSSC) has won funding to support a training programme designed to help senior women in financial services and accountancy to maximise their career potential.

A structured product with an inbuilt ‘hindsight' feature designed to reduce the risk of investors mis-timing their entry into the market has been launched.

Lincoln Financial Group has launched a new IHT-competitive Discounted Gift bond, allowing people to move money out of estates while still retaining income.

Support services provider threesixty says it has opened up a profitable avenue for new business for advisers, following a tie-up with Margetts Fund Management that will allow corporate clients to invest in its unit trusts.

ISIS Equity Partners, supported by promoters RAM Capital Partners, has launched a joint offer for Baronsmead VCT plc and Baronsmead VCT 2 plc, the first offer open to new investors since 2005.

HSBC Global Asset Management is set to launch the HSBC GIF Middle East and North Africa (MENA) fund. As part of HSBC's Global Investment Funds SICAV, it will be Luxembourg-domiciled and managed by Andrea Nannini and his team at Halbis.

France could offer investors a respite from the worldwide downturn in property markets, according to International Law Partnership - a specialist firm dealing in overseas property purchase.

Royal London is to name its combined international businesses Royal London 360° when the Isle of Man-based operation launches in 2009.

Fresh doubts have been cast over the future of PPI after the financial ombudsman service (FOS) this week expressed its concerns about the products to the FSA.

London could be losing its appeal as a leading financial centre, in the wake of announcements from Henderson and Krom River Partners that they are to leave the UK, for Ireland and Switzerland, respectively, according to Jérôme de Lavenère Lussan, managing...