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Ashcourt Rowan Asset Management is to buy the assets of Generali Portfolio Management (UK) for £2.1m and take on its team of seven employees.

Skandia, part of Old Mutual Wealth, is to outsource its administration to global IT and outsourcing firm International Financial Data Services (IFDS) in a 20-year contract.

Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley's 'bad bank' paid back another £1.9bn to taxpayers in the first half of the year, the Telegraph reports.

A fully digital independent advisory business has launched a 'pensions predictor' tool to provide clarity over the impact of pension charges.

In this week's quick-fire Retirement Planner poll we ask: Could 'self-regulation' in the annuity market fail, as the FCA has warned in its latest paper?

Retirement Planner's round-up of the top pension stories this week.

Firms are not expecting a return to the "equity culture" seen in the 1990s, according to research conducted by the Investment Management Association (IMA).

Prudential has appointed John Foley to the newly created role of group investment director in a bid to strengthen the oversight of its financial investments.

The Institute of Financial Planning's (IFP) Paraplanner of the Year award has opened for this year's entries.

Chris Crawford, sales and marketing director at Jupiter, is to depart after seven years at the fund manager.