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The "high profile" of Tesco will boost retirees' inclination to shop around for the most appropriate pension income product after the supermarket giant announced it is to launch an annuity comparison service, according to Tom McPhail.

Bristol and West, which is owned by the Bank of Ireland, has lost an attempt at a Tax Tribunal to avoid paying about £30m tax on a £91m gain.

An insurance broker has launched an e-petition to reinstate tax relief on private medical insurance following a decade of price rises for consumers.

Ascentric has become one of the first platforms to explicitly rule out lobbying for super-clean share classes.

The board of the £156m Henderson Global trust, managed by Brian O'Neill, is proposing to change its benchmark to reduce its hefty exposure to UK equities.

Harlequin Management Services (South East), which trades as Harlequin Property, has filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators at the High Court of Justice.

Too much regulation - instead of instilling greater trust in the financial services industry - can have the opposite effect, according to Richard Sexton, reputation and policy director at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

The Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority has opened up a consultation process on the state's proposed rule changes which will update and strengthen the regulatory regime for (re)insurance business aligning it more closely with international best...

Towry has added to a growing list of new arrivals, as the firm plans to expand through acquisitions following an aborted float.

The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed it will create an ‘automatic transfer' system for small pots of less than £10,000, allowing workers to take their pensions with them from job to job.