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Today's Budget may have seemed like a long, drawn-out, predictable litany of banker-bashing and pre-election tax breaks, but hidden deep among the tedium was at least one bold announcement - that financial capability is to be taught as part of maths GCSE....

Alistair Darling's third Budget is just hours away and, despite much industry speculation, we still have little idea what he might announce for the pensions market.

I'm not sure who is feeling the pressure more this week- Alistair Darling or Carlo Ancelotti.

A glimmer of light at last at the end of the Equitable Life tunnel Tuesday evening saw yet another debate on Equitable Life in the House of Commons.

Chancellor Alistair Darling has just added another piece to the jigsaw of the financial services industry of the future.

In the first part of a series on advisers who specialise in different professions, Joanna Faith talks to Keith Taylor about advising doctors and dentists.

Sheriar Bradbury, MD of Bradbury Hamilton, assesses how advisers will be impacted as HMRC turns up the heat

Ed Stuart-Brown, head of protection sales at Friends Provident, recommends advisers find alternative products to sell in these difficult market conditions

Churchouse Financial Planning's Keith Churchouse has just published his first book, Sign here, here and here!...Journey of a Financial Adviser.

Going to university can cost more than £7,000 a year when you take into account tuition fees, accommodation, food, transport and socialising. IFAonline asks top advisers what parents can do to save enough money to fund their child's further education....