Brooks Macdonald Asset Management (BMAM) has appointed Lisa Brown as an intermediary sales manager.

JP Morgan is facing accusations that it hired the children of influential Chinese officials to help the investment bank win business in China.

An independent financial advice firm is facing £1m in claims from clients who say it misled them over fees on a film tax scheme.

Experts are warning that the end could be nigh for ‘zombie' companies, which are kept alive by lenient creditors but are too weak to invest or expand.

Pensioners who have paid off their mortgages are among the most wealthy people in Britain, according to research by equity release specialist Key Retirement Solutions.

Taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland could miss the deadline at the end of the year to sell 316 branches by more than two years.

Advisers are increasingly turning to blended funds as investment solutions for clients, according to figures for the first half of 2013 from multi-manager Architas.

The number of financial advisers operating in the UK has risen in the first half of the year as intermediaries re-enter the market, according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

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