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Mark Hoban, the financial secretary to the Treasury, has backed Capita's Arch cru payment scheme and told investors they should go after their independent fnancial advisers (IFA) for compensation.

When it comes to product development plans, health and protection providers need to stop repeating past mistakes and look to the future, says Wojciech Dochan.

It's not just the Olympics that will make headlines in Britain next year - the gender pricing directive comes into force in 14 months. So what should IFAs do now to prepare for it? Duncan Heald investigates

Friends Life has defended its direct to consumer proposition, PlanWise, against an claims it is using the service to cut advisers out of the sales process.

Confidence in the UK economy amongst advisers has fallen by 5% this quarter, Skandia says.

More than half of IFAs predict the retail distribution review (RDR) will drive consumers to self-invest over the next year, Legal & General (L&G) Investemnts says.

With the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) coming, the NZ government illustrates a low-cost approach to distributing protection products. Greg Becker explains

Independent financial advisers wrote more than three quarters of the life and pensions business in 2010, according to figures from the Association of British Insurers (ABI).

A financial adviser has launched a pension scheme to directly compete with the government-backed, and taxpayer funded, National Employment Savings Trust (NEST).

Philip Calvert, the founder of social network IFALife, will publish a book of top financial advice tweets for consumers.