Treasury

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has failed to recognise the virtues of mutuals, Royal London says.

SIPP provider AJ Bell has called on the government to reverse some of its income drawdown reforms.

A former Labour Treasury minister today urged her party to drop its support for the 50p tax rate.

Capital Economics' Roger Bootle is among 20 of the UK's leading economists urging the coalition to drop the 50p tax rate, calling the top levy a "self-defeating" way for the Treasury to raise money because it risks driving away the nation's wealth creators...

HM Treasury believes simple products by definition should be allowed to be sold without advice.

Advisers do not stand alone when it comes to regulation and Europe. Paul Robertson talks to Steve White, your man in Brussels

The Dilnot Commission may have come up with a workable solution to the adult social care problem but, as Peter Barnett explains, it has to get past the politician.

As Barack Obama and S&P continue their public spat over the ratings agency's downgrading of America's Triple A credit rating, just how much importance should advisers place on a downgrade?

The FTSE 100 climbed this morning and Asian and US markets rallied strongly overnight as the Federal Reserve announced it would hold interest rates at close to zero until 2013.

From a near-term point of view the downgrade of US sovereign debt is a distraction and the actual impact on US Treasuries will likely be small, according to the chief investment officer at Barclays Wealth.