Investors should be thinking about cutting their exposure to Asia and emerging markets and looking more to the developed world, according to F&C co-head of multi-manager Gary Potter.

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Harlequin Property, the troubled UK-based overseas property sales agent which is at the centre of a Serious Fraud Office investigation, is embroiled in 15 legal battles in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, IFAonline can reveal.

Network Intrinsic is set to buy national IFA firm Positive Solutions from parent company Aegon.

Insurers can pocket up to £29,000 profit for turning £100,000 of your savings into a retirement income, according to an investigation into the sector.

Britain's biggest building society Nationwide has launched an investment service aimed at customers who want to put aside sums as low as £20 a month.

A group of 1,100 Harlequin investors is proposing to make an offer to the company's chairman, David Ames, to put the troubled overseas property company's assets in a trust while a managed wind down of the business is achieved.

The High Court has approved a procedure for distributing the approximately $1bn of client money held by the UK arm of failed investment firm MF Global.

More than a third of do-it-yourself (DIY) investors say a financial adviser's knowledge of products, including tax and charges, is the most valued part of their service, according to research from Prudential.

Annuity rates have declined by 29% since the introduction of the Bank of England's quantitative easing programme, AXA Life Europe has found.