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Northern Rock is set to offer 90% mortgages, just three years after it was bailed out by the taxpayer.

Allowing early access to pension funds in some cases could place pensioners' beneficiaries at risk of a 55% tax charge, AJ Bell warns.

Former M&G chief executive of equities Ed Rosengarten has joined Eden Group as the head of asset management.

Specialist fixed income ETF partnership Pimco Source has unveiled its latest offering on the London Stock Exchange.

Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett has urged investors to overlook the "prophets of doom" on the US economy, and says now is the time to make significant new investments.

HSBC has reported pre-tax profits of $19bn (£11.8bn)for 2010 - more than doubling the previous year's figure of $7.1bn.

The FTSE has opened trading in negative territory as fears over the fallout in Libya continue to unsettle investors.

Clive Cowdery has promised to give 60% of the management profits from his life company consolidator business Resolution to a charitable foundation for the working poor.

The Treasury could scrap civil servants' right to keep their pensions when their services are bought out by private sector companies.

F&C is preparing to launch a European absolute return fund for latest hire Randeep Grewal.