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National and network advisory businesses say they may be forced to raise charges if regulatory and insurance costs continue to climb.

HSBC has launched four single country emerging market ETFs providing exposure to Indonesian, Korean, Malaysian and Taiwanese equities.

Zurich has seen a significant rise in large case policies issued over the last year.

The FSA has rejected the approval of a financial adviser after a previous employer highlighted "serious inadequacies" in his pension transfer work.

Hopes the FSA will delay the introduction of the RDR have been quashed with the announcement one of its replacement entities, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), will not come into being until 2013, IFA Alan Lakey says.

Savers today need to work an extra six years compared with five years ago in order to retire on a comfortable pension, research suggests.

IFAonline rounds up what the newspapers are saying…

The Bank of England is likely to maintain its current monetary stance and keep interest rates at their historic low today after a new report suggested the UK's economic recovery remains sluggish.

Portugal has become the third nation to ask the European Union for financial assistance.

The FSCS has trimmed £6m off its earlier estimates for investment advisers' annual levy and the amount will instead be paid by the life and pensions intermediation sub-class.