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Financial advisers could wind up paying more towards the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) unless it re-thinks proposals designed to reduce the volatility in the amount firms pay, the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has...

UK Asset Resolution (UKAR), the government agency responsible for winding down Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley after their nationalisation, has sold some £450m of Northern Rock loans to US private equity firm JC Flowers.

Skandia clients will now be able to link their assets to those of their spouse or civil partner in order to potentially qualify for a lower platform charge.

Tom Woolgrove has been elected as the 117th president of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) by members at its annual general meeting today.

Standard Life Investments is preparing to roll-out a number of regional variants of its £18bn Global Absolute Return Strategies fund, as well as a simplified version of the vehicle, IFAonline's sister title Investment Week can reveal.

The FTSE 100 has ended three straight days of losses to move 0.9% higher, returning to levels last seen at the end of May.

Female life expectancy aged 65 varies by up to 5.7 years from region to region, research from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) finds.

The outgoing president of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) is imploring her successor to take a closer look at the retail space and a reworking of what Chartered means in 2013.

The founder of Ask Law 24 explains why affordable access to lawyers is more important than ever.