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Standard Life Investments is preparing to soft-close Harry Nimmo's £1.1bn UK Smaller Companies fund in June.

The FSCS has recouped £28m from Norwich & Peterborough (N&P) after the building society admitted it mis-sold investors Keydata products, putting levy payers in line for a rebate.

Nationals round-up: Risks of bonds, Swiss savings targeted by the taxman and a think tank suggests ISAs should be scrapped.

A number of economists predict the Monetary Policy Committee will raise interest rates in August this year, to curb rising inflation.

China and the United States have agreed to hold economic talks as tensions between the world's two biggest economies continue to rise.

A boiler room scammer used a real IFA's name and FSA number to con investors out of thousands of pounds.

The City of London police and the FSA are warning investors to be on their guard as boiler room fraudsters are using new tactics to persuade investors to pay tens of thousands of pounds for non-existent shares.

Lloyds Banking Group has declined to comment on fresh speculation the company is looking to sell Scottish Widows.

Incapital Europe MD Christopher Taylor has slammed Hargreaves Lansdown and the IMA for what he claims are commercially-motivated attacks on structured products - labelling their views a "duet of diatribe".

IFAs who referred clients to advisory service debtDr fear they could be targeted for compensation after the firm went bust last night with no details available about the whereabouts of client money.