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Towergate has started targeting large UK-based companies in a bid to widen its customer base.

Employed advisers' total earnings fell to £62,838 last year, from just over £66,000 in 2011, according to research, though this pay level was still higher than for self-employed advisers.

The government should do more to ‘ease the pain' suffered by drawdown pensioners, many of whom will not be helped by the 120% limit reinstatement until 2014, Standard Life has said.

The suspended EEA Life Settlements fund has submitted its plans to the Guernsey regulator for restructuring.

Architas has mapped its funds on the Morningstar Adviser Workstation risk profiling-scale.

Creditors of collapsed advisory group Honister Capital have been told that trail commissions claimed by its former advisers actually belong to the group.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has said it plans more education of firms and invention to curb market abuse on the ‘front line' of financial services.

Hargreaves Lansdown has set up a pension contribution calculator to help people work out their annual allowance and carry forward allocations.

Exchange-traded fund (ETF) platform iShares has launched a toolkit to help advisers assess the ETF market.

Economic output per person in the UK will not recover to its pre-crisis peak until 2018, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR).