Economics / Markets

National advisory group Perspective has set up a new operational board and promoted several key individuals.

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True Potential has increased its 2012 pre-tax profit by 57% year on year, from £2.3m to £3.6m.

Big banks will be forcibly broken up if they fail to heed new rules to ring-fence their investment arms from their consumer-facing operations, George Osborne is expected to say on Monday.

Barclays has announced that Chris Lucas, its group finance director, and Mark Harding, the group general counsel, are to retire from the business.

Britain's highest earners are shouldering an increasing share of the UK's income tax burden, as coalition government policies take more people out of paying the tax, according to figures released by HMRC.

The FTSE 100 rose 6.43%, or almost 380 points, in January, making this the strongest start to the year since 1989.

Assets under management in UK funds reached a record £658bn last year, with fixed income yet again the best-selling asset class despite a late surge in interest in equities.

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