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Aviva has avoided a £0.5m fire damage claim apparently due to the non-disclosure of a bad debt from 2004 worth a few hundred pounds.

Alliance Trust Asset Management has unveiled a high-conviction European Equity fund for former Scottish Widows veteran Fiona MacRae.

Fidelity is renaming its Sterling Bond fund under the ‘Strategic' label in order to more accurately reflect the vehicle's investment remit.

Henderson has agreed the final sale needed in order to re-open its New Star International Property fund, which has been suspended since 25 November 2008.

Police are investigating alleged fraudulent activity by former Rowanmoor Pensions joint managing director David Seaton, who died in September.

Six people have been charged with fraud relating to mortgage advances totalling nearly £50m, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has revealed.

Investors have an average weighting of just 0.1% in emerging markets (EM) despite almost two thirds of IFAs considering it the best performing asset class, research suggests.

Skandia UK is laying off three senior executives as part of a restructuring of the business.

Independence remains "a good term", an IFA says, but ongoing debate about what defines an ‘independent' practitioner could render it meaningless.

Financial advisers are the most trusted source of retirement advice, according to Defaqto, just beating friends and family for the third year running.