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Today sees the online launch of the third in Professional Adviser's series of structured CPD articles tailored to meet your RDR gap-fill requirements.

Most consumers believe the FSA failed to stand up to the banks in the run-up to the financial crisis and has not done enough to help consumers, according to a poll by Which?.

Skandia UK has announced a 5% fall in net inflows and funds under management for the first nine months of the year - but said it had outperformed wider industry trends.

The UK has a seven-in-ten chance of slipping back into recession unless European leaders can find a resolution to the debt crisis, a new report argues.

From 2013, independent advisers must have a working knowledge of all ‘retail investment products'. There's just one problem: the FSA has been slow to define what they are.

The rise of the simple SIPP is threatening traditional plans, say advisers...

UK fund management firm, Fundsmith, is to use the recent UCITS IV legislation allowing them to launch a regulated SICAV feeder fund in Luxembourg.

The Chairman of economic advisory council to the French government and professor at Paris' Sorbonne university, Christian de Boissieu, has accused Greek Prime Minister Georges Papandreou of putting forward "a trap" by calling for a Greek referendum on...

For ten years the Financial Ombudsman Service has been making decisions behind closed doors. But all that changes from this week, as we find out...

With tuition fees rising, saving for a child's university expenses has taken on new significance, writes Standard Life International's Ian Searle