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JLT Employee Benefits (JLTEB) has suspended consultancy charging on corporate schemes until the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) completes its investigation of the practice.

Positive Solutions, the UK's largest national independent financial advice firm, has made LifeQuote, a protection platform, available to its advisers.

The UK's stagnating economy avoided a triple-dip recession today after initial estimates showed it expanded 0.3% in the first quarter of 2013.

Investor demand has driven Standard Life Investments to resister some of its most successful SICAV funds in France, Belgium and Italy.

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Hargreaves Lansdown co-founder Stephen Lansdown has sold 5.5m shares in the wealth manager, bringing his stake in the company down below 20%.

One of the German government's closest economic advisers has warned the euro has a "limited chance of survival" and may only last for another five years.

Assets under management at wealth manager St James's Place were up £4.2bn to a record £39bn, interim results released today show.

Aviva UK proposition, strategy and development director Paul Goodwin is leaving the provider as part of the restructure announced last week.