Bank of England Governor Mark Carney will this week set out his long-awaited strategy for interest rates with a set of policies designed to reassure borrowers that rates will stay low for many months to come.

The Chancellor will not sell any of the government's stake in Lloyds Banking Group until September, dashing recent hopes in the City of a sell-off as early as this week, according to reports.

Long standing clients probably already know the value you offer them - but how about when it comes to convincing prospective clients? IFA Midlands Investment Agency breaks down what you should be telling them into 12 easy pieces.

Manchester based Mamucium Capital Management has launched offering what it calls a "new model" of investing based on the "science of capital markets".

Royal London has completed the acquisition of the Co-operative Banking group's life insurance and asset management businesses.

Lloyds Banking Group is back in the black after announcing a profit before tax of £2.1bn for the six months to the end of June - and said it is on course to target IFA clients orphaned by the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

Quilter Cheviot and Rathbones have joined forces to create a standard methodology for calculating total account costs, expressed as an annual percentage.

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Adviser support group, Tenet, has launched an in-house paraplanning service, enabling members who do not have the requirement for a full time paraplanner to out-source technical research and report writing.

A new set of rules to make sure big business pays its fair share of tax will be unveiled today as part of efforts by the world's leading countries to crack down on avoidance.