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Pioneer and Exeter Friendly have confirmed they will come together under the Exeter Family Friendly name and the provider says it will focus on selling its products through intermediaries.

The FSCS has moved to deny 'inaccurate' press reports it plans to cut the compensation cover for investments from the current £50,000.

MSCI has expanded its presence in Australia with the launch of two indices based on domestic equities.

Advisers say the CF8 exam does not give IFAs a full enough grasp of the long term care market.

UK public borrowing rose to a record high in August, at £15.9bn, dwarfing the £12.51bn economists had predicted.

Canada Life and the Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) are launching a series of free seminars for advisers aimed at growing the group income protection (GIP) market.

The level of inflows into emerging market bond funds in 2010 has already overtaken the figure for 2009, according to Lipper FMI.

Cazenove is planning to launch an income fund for co-heads of multi-manager Marcus Brookes and Robin McDonald.

The government has been urged to set up an independent advisory body to help annuitants and promote the open market option.

Ellipse is holding a series of breakfast events for advisers in advance of launching their online group risk system towards the end of the year.