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High street sales remained sluggish in April, despite the volume of sales rising compared with last year, said the CBI.

Capping prices or requiring advisers to benchmark recommendations against lower-charged substitutable products could have unintended consequences for consumers, insurer Aegon UK says.

A man has been awarded £27,000 after his local primary care trust (PCT) wrongly assessed his father's long term care (LTC) needs.

The government has bent HMRC rules to allow investors in Lifemark and Hometrak-backed Keydata products to put an amount equal to their original investments back into an ISA and regain their tax exemptions.

Morningstar has launched a new investment forecasting tool for investors in an effort to plug what it warns will be a post-RDR advice gap.

AWD Chase de Vere has reported reduced earnings for Q1, blaming the increasing cost of regulation.

Schroders has renamed its gold and metals fund and changed the investment objective to allow it to invest in a different set of underlying commodities, including gold equities for the first time.

The removal of the requirement to annuitise by age 75 could encourage people to remain in drawdown even when it becomes damaging, MGM Advantage and Intelligent Pensions (IP) warned.

ETF Securities has listed three physically-backed ETCs on the London Stock Exchange providing access to aluminum, lead and zinc.

LV= has produced a plain English guide offering simplified explanations for advisers to use when explaining critical illnesses (CI) to clients.