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Bupa has launched a group risk website to provide its intermediaries with a resource for all of its products and services.

Warren Buffett has put himself on the eBay auction block, offering his words of wisdom over lunch to the highest bidder.

Franklin Templeton's emerging markets guru Mark Mobius says the global economy will avoid a double-dip recession.

David Cameron has warned the UK's annual interest payments could surge to £70bn if cuts are not made urgently as he told the nation to prepare for "unavoidably tough" measures.

Prudential's top executives are in the firing line at the company's AGM today as they face down shareholders angry over the insurer's failed bid for Asian insurer AIA.

Ex-New Star managers Phil Roantree and Stephen Whittaker are to launch an income fund through their new venture, Querns Asset Managers, seeding it with £5m of their own money.

The FSA has fined Close Investments Ltd £98,000 for failing to properly protect and segregate client money.

The Cautious Managed sector has topped the IMA's best retail sales chart in April for the first time since November 2007.

The FSA has fined investment manager Rowan Dartington & Co £511,000 for failing adequately to protect and segregate client money for more than two years.

Banning referral arrangements between conveyancers and introducers, such as mortgage advisers, is not in consumers' interest, according to a report from the Legal Services Board Consumer Panel.