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Aviva is introducing a platform charge of 0.15% for new customers with portfolios valued at more than £400,000.

Adviser Home has partnered with Octopus Investments in order to promote tax planning investment practices.

Liontrust Asset Management has seen its AUM grow to £3.6bn by the end of 2013 as the takeover of North Investment Partners helped counter outflows in the final quarter.

The Bank of England governor will enter the Scottish independence debate by reflecting on the currency implications of a "Yes" vote in the referendum.

Barclays plans to close a quarter of its branches in the UK and cut hundreds of jobs in its investment banking division as part of a restructuring.

Lloyds Banking Group is to cut over 1,000 jobs nationwide, with its wealth division among those facing significant cuts, according to the Unite union.

Retirement Planner's round-up of the top pension stories this week.

In this week's quick-fire poll we ask: Is the Financial Ombudsman Service right to take into account good practice at the time an annuity was sold?

Sesame advisers will no longer be able to recommend non-mainstream investment products under the firm's new restricted proposition, managing director Stephen Gazard has said.

A private equity firm has bought a majority stake in national financial advisory business Succession.