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Prudential is to hold a series of financial planning seminars for advisers across the UK, to help them make better use of the wide range of tax allowances available without crossing the government's avoidance line.

Alliance Trust Savings (ATS) plans to shore up the number of funds available on the platform over the next four months as part of a final active expansion drive.

The Co-operative group has been hit with more than half a billion pounds worth of losses in the first half of this year, after sizeable write-offs at its troubled banking arm.

Pension savers are being warned to regularly update the documents that say who should get money from their pension pot if they die.

Investors who hold bond-like assets issued by Nationwide Building Society can sell them back to the mutual early under an offer made this week.

High-risk home loans, once dubbed ticking timebombs by the City watchdog, are back on sale - but this time with a safety net attached.

Low fees are far less important to clients than the adviser being able to communicate clearly or being easy to talk to, according to research.

Sterling dropped and then recovered sharply minutes after new Bank of England Governor Mark Carney told the world he has no plans to raise rates any time soon, but was upbeat on UK growth.

Mark Carney has moved to defend the Bank of England's 'forward guidance' policies and said further stimulus may be necessary keep the UK economic recovery on course.

Annuity rates would have to improve by at least 6% from today's rates to make any delay in purchasing a retirement income worthwhile, says a new report.