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Financier Allen Stanford faces up to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of orchestrating a $7bn Ponzi scheme.

Chancellor George Osborne's plan to convince pension funds to invest £20bn into a government-backed infrastructure fund has serious "issues", Labour has said.

Lehman Brothers has emerged from bankruptcy and is now a liquidating company that will begin the process of paying back its creditors and investors before finally being wound up.

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Charles Stanley has appointed Cofunds as its fund custodian in a deal which will see £1.2bn of funds moved across to the platform's institutional arm.

Business secretary Vince Cable has signalled that the Liberal Democrats are willing to scrap the 50p tax rate, in exchange for a "mansion tax" on high value property.

The government must make reforms to improve transparency and clarity around tax on annuities and trivial commutation of pension pots, the Office for Tax Simplification (OTS) has said.

The price of oil could rocket to $200 a barrel this year, triggering a flash crash in stock markets, according to Rathbones' David Coombs.