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The amount people can earn before paying tax will be increased by around £600 from April next year, Chancellor George Osborne will announce today.

Advisers should be able to decide when and to whom they recommend 'simple' products, the IMA says.

Partners at BlueCrest Capital Management have brought ownership of the $25bn hedge fund manager wholly in-house by buying partnership interests held by Man Group and retired co-founder Bill Reeves.

Lifesearch has revealed it is considering entering the general insurance broker market.

Margaret Cole, director of enforcement at the FSA, will become the head of half of the regulator as it divides in two in April.

The FSCS has pledged to use the money it receives from the £57m Keydata compensation deal it struck with N&P to partly refund advisers' levies.

A member of the AIFA RDR Working Group has launched a public attack on the organisation saying it is disproportionately influenced by pro-fee IFA firms and takes a "Stalinist approach" to crushing dissent.

IFAonline will be broadcasting live and interactive video reaction to George Osborne's Budget tomorrow afternoon from 3.30pm.

There is "no overriding reason" why a merger of national insurance (NI) and income tax should not go ahead, an actuary says.

Andrew Sentance has predicted inflation could rise above 5% this year and repeated his calls for a gradual increase in interest rates and cutting off of monetary stimulus.