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The run-up to the US elections and the international investment markets of Asia and Latin America offer hope to investors in 2012, says J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Dubai-based financial advisers, Globaleye, is launching a recruitment drive for advisers and opening an office in Manchester.

The Treasury is expected to close a loophole that allows wealthy individuals to avoid paying stamp duty on expensive property transactions in draft legislation for the Finance Bill today.

Leading fund managers, including L&G and Jupiter, have stepped up their attack against huge pay rises at the UK's biggest banks.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to conduct a review into the sale of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) early next year.

Ratings agency Standard and Poor's (S&P) said France and Germany are among 15 nations that have been put on "credit watch" due to fears over the impact of the debt crisis.

Kevin Steele, a former partner of the solicitors' firm Mishcon de Reya (MDR) has been convicted of forgery and two fraud offences at Southwark Crown Court.

The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries has identified lack of clarity about how to plan for future long term care needs and a lack of reliable sector data as barriers to market development.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called for state pension benefits to be means-tested in a move which would see wealthier older people having to pay for certain services currently available to them free of charge.

The government's proposed cuts to public sector pensions will not go far enough to plug the schemes' funding gaps, Labour peer Lord Hutton has warned.