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Aviva bagged three accolades at the What Mortgage Awards 2010, for best landlord insurance provider, best lifetime mortgage provider, and best home reversions provider.

The Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) is close to completing plans for a register of elite financial planning firms, with inclusion likely to result in reduced PII premiums.

The FSA has fined the London branch of Société Générale £1.57m for failures in transaction reporting.

Fortis' protection business has continued its "good progress" in the first half of the year having completed its whole of market roll out.

Standard & Poor's has downgraded Ireland's credit rating over fears about the country's weak banking system.

The ABI is highlighting the need for clients to fully disclose their medical history when taking out protection and health insurance.

Pimco's Bill Gross says there will be no housing-led recovery in the US without Government support.

The PPF will today unveil plans to gather enough funding to pay all future benefits.

Adviser Alliance(AA)has bemoaned the rise of consumer power in light of the first successful Keydata claim and says advisers should not "carry the can" for company failings.

A former Park Row adviser has decided to leave the IFA sector because he is fed up with waiting for the FSA to re-authorise him.