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Investors have poured more than £1bn into funds investing in Brazil, Russia, India and China in the past six months.

BP and Shell were braced for the reaction of the markets on Wednesday after European regulators began an investigation into whether the companies may have manipulated the price of oil for more than a decade.

In what now seems to be a positive climate for financial advisers, almost half see low interest rates as their biggest opportunity, according to the latest Aviva barometer.

Confidence among UK savers is growing with a third planning to increase the amount they invest in the next 12 months, a survey has revealed.

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

Scottish Widows has appointed Esther Dijsktra as head of intermediary protection propositions to guide the firm's launch into the protection market.

The Bank of England needs to remind the public and businesses that interest rates will one day rise again, a former Monetary Policy Committee member has warned.

The administrator of the sales arm of the troubled Harlequin Property group has racked up fees of more than £28,000 in its first ten days in the role.

Prolonged low inflation has sent commodities allocations among fund managers to a four-year low, according to a survey.

The government has launched a consultation on allowing the transfer of existing savings from Child Trust Fund (CTF) accounts into Junior ISAs (JISAs).