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Investors' decision to move into money market funds in July was rewarded as the sector was only one of three to report positive returns.

Ascentric will introduce three new tiers of higher interest rates for cash held on the platform from 1 July.

Standard Life has today launched a five-year Capital Protected Bond, available through financial advisers.

Cautious advisers are still not ready to commit to the market with cash remaining the most popular destination for client money, new statistics suggest.

Nervous advisers who took the flight to cash too early dented client portfolios by not trusting the natural market cycle, Adrian Shandley believes.

The fund platform industry has let advisers and clients down by not enabling free switching within an individual platform, Shaun Sandiford believes.

Evidence suggests there is more interest in stockmarket-invested Isas this year, as sales are currently up by more than half on this time last year while SWIP research suggests 15% of the population will take out an investment Isa before April 5.

There could be as much as £5bn of cash held in self invested personal pensions which is receiving poor rates of interest, new research claims.

Consultant Watson Wyatt says pension simplification and A-Day threaten possible tax rates up to 95% on parts of benefits, causing executives in the biggest UK firms to shift their retirement savings to UURBS.

Zurich Assurance has a lunched a new multimanager fund which guarantees the unit price will always be worth 80% of more of it highest value.