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A former chief executive of The Lighthouse Group has joined the growing number of shareholders that say they will not vote in favour of the Lighthouse directors' proposal to delist from AIM.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) will not take action against National Savings & Investments (NS&I) over one of the Treasury-backed agency's radio advertisements, following a complaint from a listener.

Two pension liberation schemes, which extracted £18m from retirement funds, have been taken to the High Court after intervention by The Pensions Regulator (TPR).

The UK economy shrank by 0.7% in the second quarter of the year, a far worse contraction than economists had forecast, keeping the UK mired in recession.

GDP data released today is expected to paint a miserable picture for the UK economy, with a contraction in growth forecast for the second quarter.

Chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) Lord Turner is interested in becoming the next governor of the Bank of England, The Times reports.

Regulations should crack down on the promotion of unregulated investments rather than increase elf-invested personal pension (SIPP) red tape, a trade body says.

The government must act to curb soaring cost of funding occupational pension schemes which is harming businesses' ability to invest and create jobs, employers have said.

Equity release advances have increased to the highest level in two and a half years according to the Equity Release Council (ERC).

Barclays has hired an investment banker to lead an independent review of its culture, as the bank tries to clean up its image following the LIBOR scandal.