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The art market posted stellar returns in 2011, with the Mei Moses All Art index returning 11%, outpacing leading equity indices.

Trades union Unite has rejected the government's latest offer for reform of local government pensions.

The UK economy has "significantly weakened" with domestic demand at a two-year low, but a recession is not inevitable, the latest quarterly survey by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) concludes.

A new generation of 'Wearies' - Working, Entrepreneurial and Active Retirees - is likely as a result of inadequate retirement incomes, says Friends Life.

The doctors' regulator spends more than a quarter of a million pounds a year on private medical insurance (PMI), it has been revealed.

Businesses risk alienating their staff by not offering a compassionate approach to absence management, new research has found.

A Channel Islands-listed fund which held "substantial" assets with failed broker MF Global UK Limited has ceased trading.

Equity funds experienced their highest ever outflows of retail money in November as investors pulled out their cash in droves amid the ongoing eurozone crisis.

Banks are ignoring the risk of fraud committed by their own employees despite investment in anti-fraud systems, accountancy firm BDO has warned.

This year's retirees will have the lowest pension incomes since 2008, according to research by insurer Prudential.