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Child Trust Funds (CTFs) could solve Britain's debt problem if linked with inheritance tax (IHT) as a part of a wider, inter-generational asset strategy, experts say.

Now that you have all read the FSA's latest RDR paper in full (naturally), IFAonline welcomes you to its ever-so-slightly leftfield guide to last week's developments...

Global investor confidence is up on last month, according to research by State Street Global Markets.

A law firm preparing a legal challenge to an FSCS decision to levy advisers for a number of high-profile investment failures says it needs the backing of 1,000 IFAs to succeed.

AWD UK, which now encompasses AWD Chase de Vere alone, turned a profit last year for the first time since 2006 following a restructure of the business.

The GP advice line, free for all HSF Health Plan subscribers, will be able to help both employees and employers with the fit note transition.

Almost a fifth (18%) of people retiring in 2010 expect to receive less than £10,000 a year from their pensions and investments, as expected incomes drop for the third year runnning, research suggests.

Friends Provident has launched a corporate investment platform aimed at employee benefit consultants and trustees in the unbundled pensions market.

Royal London went into the black in 2009, with the group boosted by pensions sales and a strong take-up of its Ascentric wrap.

Henderson's Stephen Peak remains comfortable with his near 12% stake in Gartmore despite seeing the fund manager's share price slide more than 30% this week.