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The Accounting and Actuarial Discipline board has launched an investigation into the accounting errors discovered at RSM Tenon earlier this year.

Operating profits at Standard Life UK rose by more than 60% in the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2011, driven by an increase in fee revenues and lower acquisition costs.

Almost 40% of advisers believe the government's introduction of automatic transfers for small pensions was right but remain unsure how it will work in practice, a poll has found.

Pershing has begun hosting its practice management programme in the UK for the first time, giving firms an insight into regulation, buying, selling and merging businesses, technology and changing client demands.

Fidelity Worldwide Investment has launched a shopping around tool with Annuity Direct to help people use the open market option.

Asset management boutique Newton, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, is set to launch fully unbundled Retail Distribution Review (RDR)-ready share classes across its entire fund range in September.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) chief executive Stephen Hester has emerged as the frontrunner to fill the vacant chief executive position at Barclays.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has warned that most crowdfunding schemes should only be targeted at sophisticated investors, amid concerns about their risk and complexity.

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A retired couple in their 70s face a massive tax interest bill dater moving their retirement funds offshore to get around UK pension rules, the Daily Mail reports.