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Independent financial advisers are the most trusted practitioners in financial services, ahead of building societies, investment companies and life insurers, a study concludes.

The FSA should immediately review its authorisation procedures following news IFAs will need to pick up the tab for Keydata compensation, according to AIFA.

Advice firms that give most of their staff clearly-defined job roles are more profitable than those that do not, research suggests.

Children from the lower classes are more likely to become obese than peers from wealthier backgrounds, a report has found.

Foster Denovo envisages the market will continue to experience similar challenges in the first half of 2010, and employers are going to be continually working to keep costs down.

Over a third of young people plan to start a pension before they hit the big 3-0 opening up a swathe of new advice business, research by Friends Provident suggests.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) expects the number of claims against structured products firms to continue to increase throughout next year, meaning its costs will also rise accordingly.

Wales-based IFA Buckles Investment Services is set to abandon its previous strategy of only acquiring businesses in the North West with a push South in the New Year.

Long-term insurance premium income fell more than a third in the first nine months of 2009 compared to last year, research suggests.

New mortgage lending increased by 20% to £40bn in Q3 compared to Q2 but it is still well down on the £61bn advanced in Q3 2008, according to FSA figures.