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Aviva has reported UK operating profits up 3% for the first half of the year, and highlighted auto-enrolment as an area of opportunity.

The top rate of tax could be replaced with a mansion tax or a levy on the richest in society if it is scrapped, according to Vince Cable.

The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners' (STEP) latest global quarterly confidence survey reveals growing doubts about the economy, although it remains in positive territory.

A majority of leading economists polled by the BBC expect interest rates to remain unchanged until next year.

Schroders' net flows into its retail funds dropped to £400m in the first half of 2011, from £5.1bn during the same period last year, as the macro-economic climate spooked investors.

AXA Wealth's net new business rose 18% to £1.1bn for the first half of 2011, with the group benefiting from last year's strategic review which lead to a focus on this part of the business.

SIPP providers, advisers and life offices have written to the Treasury pressuring it to allow simpler transfers of assets between savings vehicles.

Only one complaint about the structure of private medical insurance (PMI) contracts has been forwarded to the FSA by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), COVER has learned.

One of the founders of the British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) healthcare focus group has resigned claiming the organisation does not cater for smaller brokers.

The publication of the Dilnot Report provides a once in a decade opportunity to arrive at a fair care funding system.