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Pressure is building on the coalition government to slow the rate of acceleration of the state pension age (SPA) for women.

Old Mutual saw a net outflow of £2.6bn in the first quarter of the year, although assets under management edged up and Skandia saw growth in new business volumes.

HSBC intends to launch three ETFs investing in global real estate, Russian and Chinese equities, alongside plans to further extend its emerging market coverage.

Markets across Europe fell at the start of trading as an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale hit Spain and commodities were heavily sold off in the US.

US hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam has been found guilty of making tens of millions of dollars from insider trading.

NS&I has relaunched its popular inflation- busting savings certificates, which will be linked to the retail prices index (RPI).

A new asset manager based in Guernsey is promising a fresh approach to investing.

Jubilee Financial Products has launched a product with returns linked to UK residential property prices and available as a deposit or capital protected plan with two investment terms.

With proposed new measures relating to non-UK domiciled individuals (non-doms) due for release by HMRC on 14 June 2011, accountancy firm KPMG is urging non-doms to give thought to their UK investment strategies sooner rather than later.

If a courier loses a set of completed CII exam papers, whose fault is it: the CII's or the courier's?