New Star has appointed Greg Jones as managing director of its international fund business.

Skandia International has launched the Royal Skandia Client Centre, an online service to keep advisers and clients up-to-date with their investments.

New Star's recently launched Indian Equity fund is the first New Star offering to be available on the Skandia Life Ireland platform and has also been added to the Royal Skandia platform.

Bank bonds now offer exceptional value, according to Stephen Snowden, manager of the Old Mutual Corporate Bond fund.

Research commissioned by Zurich in tandem with adviser firm Sesame has revealed that changes to the CGT regime have not been overtly detrimental to investment bonds.

Advisers have reacted positively to plans by the Personal Finance Society (PFS) to raise the profile of the six per cent of its members that have chartered status.

The UK economy stalled in Q2, according to the latest official data from the ONS.

The over-80s is the fastest-growing section of the population, research from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) suggests.

The FSA has publicly censured a brokerage as part of its thematic project into the quality of mortgage advice, and would have fined the firm £24,000 were it not in financial difficulty.

Mortgage borrowers languishing on their lender's standard variable rate (SVR) could save £705m a year by remortgaging, according to Impartial.co.uk.