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The 2010 Labour Election Manifesto, published today, has revealed plans aimed at preventing homes being sold to pay residential care bills.

AIFA plans to launch its own case-study based alternative assessment which will qualify advisers to QCF Level 5, a level above the new minimum for UK advisers set by the RDR.

Morningstar UK has acquired fund ratings agency Old Broad Street Research (OBSR) for £11.95m.

Kensington Mortgage Company has been fined £1.225m for the "unfair treatment" of some customers in arrears and has agreed to pay an estimated £1.066m customer redress.

Labour launched its manifesto today with a pledge to slash more than £6bn off the cost of business regulation by 2015.

A new-look IFAonline homepage went live yesterday, offering easier access to news and opinion from all areas of the industry.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown today described the upcoming General Election as "the first post-crisis vote and the most important in a generation".

A London mortgage broker who submitted 42 falsified mortgage applications for customers has been banned and fined £103,000 by the FSA.

Standards International and the ifs School of Finance are embarking on a joint venture to improve the skills and knowledge of financial advisers.

York-based Ardent IFA is joining adviser-owned wrap Nucleus.