Advisers rate the ability to keep a tight grip on risk above maximising returns when recommending funds to clients, Skandia research suggests.

The FSA has fined a London stock broking firm and senior director £235,000 for putting customers at risk of agressive sales tactics in penny share dealings.

Firms unable to show they can provide an ongoing service to the clients of an exiting adviser should be forced to let the adviser leave with them, 2plan Wealth Management CEO Chris Smallwood says.

IFAs expecting a decade heavy with new protection offerings could be disappointed, as providers plan to focus on adviser education not "churning" products.

Former clients of defunct adviser firm Network Data have been invited to file for compensation after the FSCS today declared the network in default.

The Lib Dems would more than double the rate of capital gains tax (CGT) to put it on a par with income tax.

The Tories have confirmed new businesses will pay no National Insurance (NI) in their initial year for the first ten employees, during the opening two years of a Conservative government.

The Tories have pledged to raise the the secondary threshold at which employers start paying National Insurance (NI) by £21 a week, countering what it calls Labour's "job tax" of a 1% NI increase.

The Arsenal boardroom power struggle could heat up after the club's fourth-largest shareholder appointed a firm to find a buyer for her shares.

Euphoria over a joint EU-IMF rescue deal for Greece worth €45bn (£39.8bn) appears short-lived, after angry reactions in Germany and continued concerns among bond investors any bail-out merely delays the worst.