HM Treasury

The IMA has called on the Government to raise the yearly ISA limit to £9,600 - among a number of measures it hopes will boost the UK's investment industry.

Chancellor Alistair Darling is set to appoint Lord Adair Turner as the new FSA chairman, succeeding Sir Callum McCarthy who steps down in September.

Any hopes of an imminent interest rate cut appear extinguished after the UK official annual inflation rate soared to 3% in April.

The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners have welcomed the Government's rethink on draft money laundering regulations which would have confused anyone who held their home in a trust.

Ed Balls has agreed to include a revised definition of the term ‘beneficial ownership' in relation to trusts in the draft Money Laundering Regulations, following intense industry lobbying.

HM Treasury has "shot itself in the foot" by refusing to reconsider the borrowing rules introduced on A-Day for buying commercial property through SIPPs, claims Hornbuckle Mitchell.

The Association of IFAs is calling on the National Audit Office to conduct a review of the Financial Services Authority every two years.

Changes announced in the Budget mean the State Second Pension may not become flat-rate until 2035, four years later than planned, claims the Pensions Management Institute.

The government's response to a public petition asking for the removal of the 70% tax charge on leftover Alternatively Secured Pension Funds, is a clear signal retirees need to be more innovative, claims Living Time.

The government has reduced proposals for the minimum amount of income which must be drawn from an Alternatively Secured Pension from 65% to 55% of a comparable annuity for a 75 year old, but has retained the unauthorised payment charges on funds left...