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Majedie Asset Management has hired Fidelity's Adrian Brass as it prepares a push into the global and US equity space via three fund launches next month.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a warning notice to a director of an appointed representative (AR) firm for promoting and arranging unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) despite its network not allowing UCIS business.

Many middle-class professionals are paying an income tax rate of 60% as a result of a little-understood policy introduced by the last Labour government which affects more than 500,000 people, a leading economist has warned.

Informed Choice executive director Nick Bamford has dismissed the idea that advisers can produce "better" investment performance for clients, saying what he offers is "suitability" not shoot out the lights returns.

In this week's Retirement Planner quick fire poll we ask whether you believe tax relief will be targeted ahead of next year's general election.

In this week's Retirement Planner news round-up we highlight five key stories you might have missed over the past seven days.

The Investment Management Association (IMA) has called on members to "abandon" using annual management charges on any literature following the regulator's guidance on fund charges.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has urged asset managers to move away from using the annual management charge (AMC) as their headline cost, instead pushing for a focus on the ongoing charges figure (OCF).

An online simplified advice business which also allows customers to speak to an adviser is set to be launched by the former chief executive of Ashcourt Rowan Financial Planning.

The FTSE 100 has soared to its highest level since early 2000, as mining and housing stocks boost the blue-chip index at the start of the week.