House prices will rise, workers are taxed more than they think, and the recovery is under threat from psychological scarring left by the financial crisis. Our round-up of the news from the nationals.

Norwich & Peterborough (N&P) building society has widened its investigation into advice by branch staff to include recommendations to invest in funds from JP Morgan, Standard Life and Legal & General.

Simplified advice poses a "systemic risk" to IFAs because it opens them up to mass compensation claims for unsuitable advice, according to Prudential.

Prudential is expanding its direct sales arm for high net worth customers, but has pledged to ring fence those clients introduced to it by IFAs.

Keydata founder Stewart Ford has put together a £91m loan facility offer for Lifemark, which, if accepted, he claims would repay the Financial Services Compensation Scheme and investors in full.

Warren Buffett has revealed he has exploited recent sell-offs to buy up cheap stocks.

A third of company pensions could be at risk of last-minute drops in the stock market before savers hit retirement, according to a report.

The trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's former firm has won an appeals court ruling backing his method of working out which investors can recover money lost in the Ponzi scheme.

Standard Life champions fee-charging advisers and will invest cash which it previously paid out as commission in the business so it can help IFAs meet customers' needs post RDR, its UK CEO Paul Matthews said.

Laura Miller asks who should benefit when commission is replaced by fees?