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Alistair Darling admitted last night that Labour's planned cuts in public spending will be "deeper and tougher" than Margaret Thatcher's in the 1980s, as the country's leading experts on tax and spending warned that Britain faces "two parliaments of pain"...

The National Employment Savings Trust's (NEST) 2% contribution charge will be levied for 20 years, the Pensions Minister says.

Standard & Poor's (S&P) has released an index comprising companies listed on the Egyptian Stock Exchange that are leaders in environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues.

HM Treasury has trebled its estimate of the one-off costs that pension schemes, employers and individuals will incur as a result of the tax on higher earners' pension contributions it is introducing from 2011, Towers Watson says.

Tax efficient arrangements such as employer funded retirement benefit schemes could come under heavy government scrutiny following yesterday's Budget, a consultant warns.

Advisers could be missing out on a "golden opportunity" to take advantage of an expected surge in demand for financial advice over the Easter bank holiday, suggests research.

HSBC Open funds manager Nick Pothier is to leave the company and return to his native South Africa.

The line up of trustees who will oversee the National Employment Savings Trust has been confirmed by the government.

A proposed addition to the controversial Home Information Pack (HIP) that every property seller is obliged to pay for could play into the hands of thieves.

Platform, the intermediary lender of the Co-operative Bank, is to relocate its pre-completion and customer care services centres, with up to 90 staff to be affected.