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?

Cru founder Jon Maguire has closed the Bristol-based fish and chip shop he bought after the Arch cru fund he marketed collapsed.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined former Morrisons supermarket chairman Sir Ken Morrison £210,000 for failing to accurately disclose his holdings in the retailer.

The first of the structured products to mature which used Lehman Brothers as one of its counterparties has returned a gain.