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Positive Solutions has partnered with online employee benefits provider Benefex to help businesses prepare for auto-enrolment duties.

The coalition will introduce the £35,000 cap on social care costs as recommended by the Dilnot "as soon as" it is able, the health minister said today.

Novia is to allow commercial property onto the wrap for the first time, in a bid to compete with specialist self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs).

Self-invested personal pension (SIPP) provider Hornbuckle Mitchell has cut its set-up charges by 30% until the end of the year.

Parmenion's platform has passed £500m of assets under administration, with monthly inflows quadrupling year-on-year to £30m.

The UK economy is going through a "slow and difficult healing process" but there are positive signs for the future, the Prime Minister has said.

Financial advisers in the UK "lag their US peers" in making use of softer skills, according to life coach Maria Nemeth.

Support services provider threesixty has bought a 25% stake in outsourced paraplanner service The Timebank.

Conventional annuity rates have dropped 7% since June and enhanced rates have fallen 5% in the same period, according to analysis from provider MGM Advantage.

More than 30% of people aged over 60 are confused about annuities, research conducted by Age UK has found.