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Insurer Aviva has announced its gender-day (G-Day) pipeline strategy, including I-E tax change details.

Consumers will go on spending more money on non-essentials if inflation continues to drop, a senior economist has said.

Advisers must not lose sight of their clients' needs in the run-up to the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), AXA Wealth has said.

AJ Bell has outlined its plan to overhaul the income drawdown regime to make it fairer for consumers.

Following reports that Skandia is in talks to buy a share in Caerus Wealth, chief executive, Keith Carby, has insisted to IFAonline that the management at Caerus is "not in exit mode".

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) recorded a deficit of almost £154,000 in 2011/12.

Cheshire-based financial advisory group Perspective is understood to have put itself up for sale ahead of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

UK dividend payments hit another record high in Q3 2012, the latest figures from Capita have revealed, although the mood was soured somewhat as it warned it will be "much harder" to make progress in 2013.

An adviser who skimmed £500,000 from wealthy clients' funds and pocketed the interest has been jailed for five years.

Nationwide is considering making a bid for the 316 bank branches that Royal Bank of Scotland has been forced to sell, according to reports.