The Asian fund market is set to grow by nearly half from US$1.2trn to US$1.9trn in 2014 - a 46% increase, according to Lipper figures.

Lloyds Banking Group will sell its Halifax estate agency to LSL Property Services for just £1, with a loss of 460 jobs, reports the BBC.

At least 20 advisers at Aegon-owned IFA Origen are set to lose their jobs as part of a company "streamlining" process.

M&G has announced today Ben Cherrington will join as partnerships development manager from 1 January 2010.

Two thirds of advisers expect their platform transactions to increase over the next year due to the benefits of consolidation, suggests research by Skandia.

Clients and IFAs have wildly different estimates of the value per hour of independent financial advice in the build-up to 2012, research suggests.

A 'streamlined' advice service sitting in between full advice and the Government's much simpler Money Guidance scheme is proposed today by the ABI.

Women now lag even further behind men in the pension savings stakes, with ignorance about retirement provision leaving them increasingly vulnerable to post-work poverty, research suggests.

UK interest rates will stay at current 0.5% levels until 2011 and will only climb to 2% by around 2014, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).

Steve Bee is set to highlight what he sees as the key issues affecting the pensions market at Ascentric's first series of adviser conferences.