Hargreaves Lansdown

Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management has withdrawn an advertisement on Google for its VCT brokerage service following a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

The pension industry has welcomed the Treasury's rejection of early access to pensions and supports reform of trivial commutation.

Hargreaves Lansdown gathered a record £1.16bn of net new assets during a quarter which saw it enter the FTSE 100 for the first time.

The proposed changes to pension input periods (PIPs) are "appallingly drafted" and will lead to further confusion over pension tax, experts have warned.

Tomorrow marks the start of the tax year, and it also marks the day a number of pieces of pensions legislation come into force.

Hargreaves Lansdown is to join the FTSE 100 index, reflecting the continued growth of the wealth manager in recent years.

Joanna Faith asks advisers for their top global emerging markets fund picks.

Final salary pension scheme members could see a 4% cut in benefits after the BoE used miscalculated inflation rates for more than a decade, experts say.

Hargreaves Lansdown posted a 40% jump in operating profit in the final six months of 2010, but says the figure would have been "significantly higher" but for a £3m FSCS bill to help compensate customers of failed investment businesses.

Jonathan Davis, who was announced as the new ABI director of investment affairs in November, has revealed he will not take up the role after all.