Insurers will face a Government review into strenghtening their adminstration processes to ensure policyholders get fair treatment should a provider go into administration.
What happens if you mix red with blue - you get purple - and that just happened to be the colour worn by most of the Labour front budget during the budget.
Notes from the Budget: Alistair Darling does it very well. I've sat through many, and he delivers clearly, directly, smoothly.
We like Alistair Darling but, then, we like Gordon Brown too. But who was the better Chancellor? There's only one way to find out...FIGHT!
There was good news for first-time buyers and the ISA allowance represents OK news for savers...but there wasn't much else. Advisers give their verdicts.
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....
Real estate investment trusts (Reits) will be allowed to include stock dividends as part of their 90% income distribution requirements, Chancellor Alistair Darling has confirmed.
The Government has announced a consultation into the tax regime for investment trusts which will include rules on direct property investment.
Here it is: A full summary of the Government's decisions on pensions tax relief restrictions announced in today's Budget.
The IMA has applauded the Government's move to amend tax rules it says is forcing groups to domicile funds away from the UK.