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Tavistock Investments has bought IFA Sutcliffe Solloway Financial Planning and its parent Cornerstone Asset Holdings, completing the deal that formed Tavistock Partners.

More than 100 UK business leaders have backed Conservative economic policies, saying they showed the "UK is open for business" and created jobs.

Prudential chief executive Tidjane Thiam was awarded a £11.8m pay package for his final year as head of the insurer.

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) chief executive Martin Wheatley has called on firms to do more to support vulnerable customers, saying their mistakes made difficult situations worse "too many times".

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The government is being urged to ban defined benefit to (DB) to defined contribution (DC) pension transfers to minimise "complexity and confusion" once the 6 April retirement 'freedoms' are rolled out.

Wealth management firms are facing more serious consequences from a failure to meet suitability requirements as the regulator puts practices under fresh scrutiny.

Restricted advice network giant Sesame witnessed a near-30% fall in new complaints in the second half of last year, as customer gripes related to banking and credit cards rose.

MPs have criticised the regulator's handling of last year's media blunder around an upcoming closed book review, saying it had been a "major self-inflicted distraction" and "created a false market in life insurance shares".

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