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Figures from Winterthur Life UK for the first nine months of 2006 suggest the provider has made some strong gains according to its preferred method of counting its business.

Royal London has reported sales are up across its business lines in the first three quarter of this year, but the figures also suggest success has not been uniform.

Onshore investment trusts could be at a theoretical tax disadvantage under further Reits regulations just published, according to law firm Nabarro Nathanson.

Proposals to introduce a new regulatory structure for investment funds in Guernsey have received support from both fund sponsors and promoters.

The Pension Protection Fund has updated its investment strategy to include the use of derivatives.

Technical reasons mean tracker funds are unlikely to feel much from the decimation of the gaming sector this week.

Standard & Poor's has withdrawn its surveillance of Skandia following its takeover by Old Mutual, but not before firing off a final warning to investors.

Isa limits should be increased in line with inflation "to offer fair value to investors" who invest the full amount allowed each year, claims the Alliance Trust.

Jason Hollands, head of communications at F&C, says there is some evidence suggesting cross-selling of children's products is taking place on the back of CTF sales.

I've just finished reading a book called "the poker face of wall street". Writer Aaron Brown, an executive director at Morgan Stanley and a well known Wall Street quant man, believes that modern finance and the modern game of poker have a great deal of...