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Two thirds of advisers expect their platform transactions to increase over the next year due to the benefits of consolidation, suggests research by Skandia.

A series of seminars for advisers focusing on green investments is to be held in conjunction with the second National Ethical Investment Week(NEIW)

Dow Jones Indexes has licensed its GCC Titans 50 Total Return index to the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), to underlie the first ETF in the United Arab Emirates market.

A Conservative government would investigate early auto-enrolment proposals as a priority but has not ruled out scrapping Personal Accounts altogether, shadow work and pensions spokeswoman Theresa May says.

The Nasdaq OMX Stockholm exchange has started trading two ETFs providing leveraged long and short exposure to the OMXS30 index.

The Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) has voted in three members to the board.

European markets have opened very strongly this morning with the DJ Euro Stoxx 600 up 1% and the FTSE All-Share up 1.3%.

The number of ETFs has increased by around 26% year to date in European markets, according to the exchange group NYSE Euronext.

Royal Bank of Scotland could be made to sell more than 300 branches by the European Commission as a penalty for receiving billions of pounds of state aid.

FSA intervention in the mortgage sector in the near future could deliver the wrong outcomes for consumers as the market is still not functioning normally, the CML warns.