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The Institute of Fiscal Studies, in its annual Green Budget, has outlined the main techniques individuals are likely to use to avoid paying the top rate of income tax.

Plans to ban traded life policy (TLP) investments may have consigned the products to the investment bin – but advocates say they offer benefits like no other asset class.

The payment protection insurance (PPI) debacle has been one of the biggest cases of mis-selling in history, but this story shows just how ambitious some bank advisers selling the policies were...

Who moved where in another busy week in financial services?

In a new monthly series, Professional Adviser and PanaceaIFA honour those individuals who go above and beyond. The inaugural winner? Meet Derek Bull...

Alistair Mawdsley, managing director of Connaught Asset Management, explains what the FSA review of unregulated collective investment schemes needs to accomplish.

Platform-to-platform re-reg is among the few scenarios in which commission will remain. But should it?

In the first of a series of articles on trusts, Jeremy Pearson, technical support manager at Canada Life, explains the advantages of estate planning to solve clients' IHT problems.

Paul Harrison, head of business consultancy at Prudential, explains how having a clear and open remuneration model can improve the efficiency of your business.

Our protection detective gives his verdicts on five key developments in the industry this month.