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Nucleus has bolstered its wrap operations team with the appointment of former Standard Life man Martin Leckie as investment operations manager.

An "explosion" in regulatory costs is becoming a "huge problem" for networks and national advisory businesses, according to a director at Lighthouse Group.

Platform Ascentric is to hold a series of open days for advisers to help them better understand the service.

The decline in UK GDP growth in the first quarter of 2012 was today revealed to be worse than expected, after the Office for National Statistics reported a worse than feared fall of 0.3%.

IFAs around the world report as many as three out of five of their clients have a retirement funding gap. The largest has been noted by IFAs based in Singapore who say that 65% of their clients have a gap between how much they are saving and what they...

Europe equity fund managers are caught between a rock and a hard place as equity markets across Europe fall and redemptions rise to their highest levels since 2008, according to S&P Capital IQ Fund research.

Royal London 360° has retained its B+ AKG rating by AKG Actuaries and Consultants. The ratings aim to highlight both the financial and relative strength of long-term insurers.

The notion of free banking is a "myth" that may ultimately encourage the mis-selling of financial products, Bank of England executive director Andrew Bailey has said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other senior European Union (EU) officials last night called on Greece to shelve plans to quit the single currency and urged it to see out its austerity programme.

Scottish Life is developing an income drawdown package to better support advisers setting up the product ahead of potential Financial Services Authority (FSA) regulation.