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More workers will have to wait until age 68 for their state pension after the Chancellor confirmed entitlement rules would change quicker.

The Chancellor has cut the UK's borrowing levels substantially in the Autumn Statement, significantly revising down March's forecast.

The UK's surprise economic recovery looks on course to continue as Chancellor George Osborne raised his forecast for UK growth over the next few years, based on figures from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

The government has today unveiled what it said was an unprecedented package of measures to tackle tax avoidance, evasion, fraud and error.

IFAonline.co.uk will provide full coverage of Autumn Statement 2013 from 11am on 5 December.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has started a thematic review into firms' non-advised investment sales and delivery of 'simplified' advice.

The Money Advice Service (MAS) has started to develop "more targeted advice provision" and will soon be providing value for money, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said in a report, out today.

The government has announced it could bring forward plans to increase the state pension age (SPA) for people currently aged in their 40s or below.

The challenge for protection insurers in today's market is to adapt their approach so products are "bought, not sold", a report by Swiss Re concludes.

Adviser network Openwork's chairwoman Kate Avery is to step down at the end of the year after more than four years in office.