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The mortgage broker market has bottomed out and will see the intermediary market continue to grow in 2013, according to the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI).

Barclays is the most attractively valued UK bank, offering the best potential for growth if it restructures its investment banking division, according to J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

The Financial Services Authority(FSA) is planning to delay the release of the final rules for platforms until 2013, Investment Week can reveal.

The IMA has soft launched a consumer website, providing investors with details on charges, risk ratings and fund performance, as well as commentary on regulation and checklists.

Canada Life has announced its post Retail Distribution Review (RDR) adviser-charging structure across its core retirement, onshore and offshore investment solutions.

Plans to use self-invested personal pension (SIPP) providers' assets under management (AUM) as a factor in determining capital adequacy levels is a mistake, Dentons Pensions has said.

The Solicitor Regulation Authority's (SRA) board has agreed to allow solicitors to make referrals to restricted advisers causing consternation within the industry.

Financial planning firm Henwood Court has written an open letter to Chancellor George Osborne calling on him to abandon auto-enrolment for firms with fewer than 50 employees.

Ex-Threadneedle chairman Simon Davies has joined the board of national advisory firm, Intrinsic, as a non-executive director.

Origen Financial Services is to launch a restricted advice proposition for the workplace market in the new year.