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Dwarf tossing on Wall St, work experience at the FSA and an unfortunate pensioner. It's IFAonline's slightly leftfield round-up of the week.

Circle healthcare has become the first private company to take control of an NHS hospital.

Fresh fears of eurozone debt contagion hit global markets today, with the largest European indices suffering large losses.

Alan Easter, strategy, product and development director at Honister Capital, has called on advisers to rally around AIFA during the transition to RDR and ignore those who make vocal exits from the trade body.

Wealth manager SCM Private has made its model portfolios available on Praemium's Discretionary Platform Service for IFAs.

The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) has expressed doubts about the coalition government's programme to aid Britain's economic recovery by slashing public sector spending.

Skandia has called on HMRC to clarify whether pre-A-Day tax free cash will be protected when the new lifetime allowance (LTA) on pension contributions comes into effect in April 2012.

Only 22% of people know how much money they will need to save and for how long to achieve the retirement they want, according to a YouGov poll.

Pensions consultancy Mattioli Woods is shortlisting platform providers to help launch a discretionary fund management offering in summer next year.

Losses in Asia, a lack of direction from Wall Street, where traders sat out Thursday's session for Thanksgiving, and falling resources stocks have made for a poor start for the FTSE 100.