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High net worth (HNW) investor confidence is at its highest level in three years, according to the DeVere group.

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has urged the Chancellor to make house building and home finance the main plank of his upcoming Budget in order to boost confidence in the economy.

Standard Life Investments (SLI) has handed its £52m UK Equity High Alpha fund to UK equity analyst Henry Flockhart, who will replace Ed Legget as lead manager on the fund.

Total assets in UK wealth management reached a record high of £527bn in Q4 last year, despite fears regulation would dampen inflows and put pressure on costs.

Threadneedle is preparing to soft-close Philip Dicken's £1bn Pan-European Smaller Companies fund.

The Commission on Banking Standards has told the government its plans to reform the UK's banking sector are not strict enough.

Dubai's Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has been forced to issue another alert to both the financial services community and members of the public of an email scam distributed in its name.

The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) and a similar regulatory upheaval in Australia represent the most significant changes to the global financial advice industry in 2013, according to an influential US report.

Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury Select Committee (TSC), has written to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) over a decision by the Bank of Ireland (BoI) to raise mortgage interest rates.

The stark warning from Cyprus' outgoing finance minister that the island will run out of money come May has panicked depositors into withdrawing funds and causing the new finance minister to issue his own warning that the Cypriot banks will be at risk...