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Financial services and platform provider True Potential has made a lifestyle planning tool available to its 4,000 IFA users.

The Treasury could be straining its coffers as auto-enrolment means more people than ever before will be subject to pension tax relief.

The Open Market Annuity Service (TOMAS) has upgraded its online annuity ‘assistant' to improve its service for retirees with small pots.

Eurozone members have delayed the approval of more than half of the €130bn loan for Greece, raising fears the troubled economy will officially default.

The UK's failed lenders, Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley, today reported total profit for 2011 had surged 145% to almost £1.1bn.

Russian equities currently represent the largest overweight position in the Luxembourg-domiciled HSBC GIF BRIC Equity Fund and in other broader HSBC emerging market portfolios.

Pictet strengthens emerging market team and three new directors join Royal Bank of Canada Wealth Management to target the high net worth sector, including UK resident non-domiciled clients.

British taxpayers have wasted £88.6bn in tax relief over the last decade, and will waste a further £12.6bn in 2012 alone, a new report suggests.

Skandia has removed a price comparison service from its PlatformWatch tool due to "lack of cooperation" from other platforms.

Aviva has become the latest major insurer to reveal the details of its auto-enrolment proposition, as well as a separate workplace savings platform.