The ifs School of Finance has confirmed that its Diploma for Financial Advisers (DipFA), a new qualification benchmarked to QCA Level 4, will cost £500.

The ifs School of Finance today says its new RDR-friendly qualification, the Diploma for Financial Advisers (DipFA) will cost £500.

The FTSE100 has had a sluggish start to the week despite smart gains for the mining giants this morning. London's blue-chip index is currently 24.70 points (0.45%) behind to 5430.10.

Mena-invested funds rocketed in the first half of 2008 while funds registered for sale in the Gulf Cooperation Council region, including Shari'ah compliant funds investing elsewhere, were not spared the problems of current global markets, according to...

Up to 300,000 workers will lose their jobs by 2011, pushing the number of people out of work close to 2m, a leading business group says today, The Times reports.

Franklin Templeton Investments has added sterling-priced distributor share classes to its recently launched Franklin Mena [Middle East and North Africa] fund.

Shareholders in beleaguered lender Bradford & Bingley snapped up just 27.84% of its £400m rights issue, leaving underwriters with more than £288m of unsubscribed stock.

AdviserCareers.com has listed its 500th job, just days after launching.

Since my last blog on IFAonline, we at Life Trust have been working on producing a report that puts a figure on the cost of retirement in conjunction with the Centre for Economic and Business Research.

Dominic Rossi has resigned from his position as head of equities at Threadneedle to join Gartmore as chief investment officer later this year.