Treasury

Over 40% of advisers think the Treasury will leave Alternatively Secured Pension as it is.

PAUL DAVIDSON, the entrepreneur known as The Plumber, intends to seek £5m in costs after the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal found he had been unreasonably treated by the Financial Services Authority, reports the Daily Telegraph.

The UK government's gilt issuing policy may not only be affecting annuity values but also the prospects of deferred members of pension schemes which are winding up.

The Isle of Man Treasury has appointed a new financial controller, with effect from next Monday

The Treasury has flatly denied it is considering making mortgage payment protection insurance (MPPI) compulsory for all homebuyers in the UK.

The Government has published the secondary legislation to bring home reversions and Ijara home purchase plans under Financial Services Authority regulation.

The launch last week of what has been quickly touted as the never-ending or inter-generational mortgage by Kent Reliance Building Society was always likely to provoke debate.

As the last days of August approach and we near the end of summer, it seems pensions finally appear to have taken a long awaited break.

Tax rises or government spending cuts looked a growing possibility yesterday after official figures estimated that so-called "carousel" fraud activity had jumped another 50% in the second quarter of the year, reports the Guardian.

While the government does its best to decide whether it is ‘naïve or misleading', as suggested in the Public Administration Select Committee's report, the question outstanding is how will this affect personal accounts?