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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned a sole trader for failing to disclose information it requested about a transaction made on behalf of a client.

Asset managers are likely to engage in a "fundamental rethink" of their retail strategies as more customers go direct in future, according to analysts at Barclays.

House prices continued to rise across the UK in May but there has been a slight slowdown in the rate of inflation compared to April, according to a survey by property analysts.

The UK economy is in good health, suggest two major business lobby groups, the CBI and the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).

Labour's pledge to reduce the auto-enrolment threshold is a step in the right direction but lower paid employees are still missing out under the ‘band earnings' rules, according to Scottish Widows.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is failing to take all evidence into account when ruling on complaints against advisers, and is sometimes not giving reasons for its decisions, advisers have claimed.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has made it a priority to help advisers innovate their business models to reach the middle market, chief executive Martin Wheatley said on Thursday.

As many as ten million pension savers will increase their contributions to take advantage of greater at-retirement flexibility announced in the Budget, according to research.

Labour is set to announce plans that would see an extra 1.5 million workers automatically enrolled into a pension scheme.

UK equity income funds recorded their best month on record in April as the ongoing demand for income solutions saw them rake in hundreds of millions of pounds.