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According to Laing & Buisson efforts to divert demand away from care homes appear to be running out of steam as the proportion of private payers rises.

The ten worst offending payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling firms could face costs of over £55m to enable regulators to deal with the problem.

Standard Life (SL) will review the wording of letters sent directly to investors after advisers complained they were incentivizing clients to drop IFAs.

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The Complaints Commissioner has rebuked the FSA for publishing "misleading" and "ambiguous" information about cheque clearing times on its website.

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) has hailed the increase in the ombudsman's free case fee threshold as a positive move for IFA firms.

Advisers have expressed concern at the rise in popularity of 'short ETFs' - products designed to track the inverse price of an index or underlying asset.

Employees are more likely to have been absent from work due to personal reasons than because of sickness, new research has revealed.

Axa will quit the Irish Insurance Federation (IIF) after claiming it can no longer afford the membership cost due to the economic climate.

Trade union Unite has rejected the government's latest proposal for reform of the NHS pension scheme (NHSPS).