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Wrap platform Ascentric and institutional arm IFDL grew combined total assets by 20% over the first six months of the year to £6.2bn.

Advisers remain the preferred source of information for small firms when choosing a company pension, one year after the government's campaign for auto-enrolment first launched, new research suggests.

Fund managers investing in Hargreaves Lansdown are torn on whether to add to positions as the company readies the next phase of its Retail Distribution Review (RDR)-friendly business model.

Charlie Bean, the deputy governor of the Bank of England (BoE), has said the Bank has sent a "clear signal" it won't increase interest rates anytime soon as he expressed some surprise at investors' reaction to its position.

Oxford Risk, a spinout of the University of Oxford, has developed an online risk profiling service that gives investors and advisers access to professional risk assessments.

The enhanced annuity specialist Partnership has appointed former Tesco Bank compliance director Joanne Evans as its new director of compliance.

Wealth managers have been shifting assets out of fixed income and into property as the unloved sector comes back onto investors' radar.

Sven-Goran Eriksson, the former England football manager, has hit out at the adviser who he claims cost him £10m, labeling him the "only person on earth I hate."

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has written to advisers asking them why they failed to comply to its redress scheme rules in reporting back on the number of eligible Arch Cru claimants they had on their books.

The UK economy grew by 0.7% in the second quarter of 2013, a higher than previously estimated figure, according to latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.