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Former Skandia CIO Clive Hale is near to completing his 22,000-mile round-the-world motorbike ride to raise cash for charity.

UK stocks continued to rise this morning with the FTSE 100 climbing 32.22 points (0.63%) to 5174.82 points in early trading.

Savers stashing money offshore to avoid paying tax have been warned the "game is up" by HMRC as the Government mulls more measures to prevent tax avoidance, according to reports.

A quarter of financial advice firms have yet to even begin assessing their businesses against proposals in the RDR, research from AIFA suggests.

Wall Street shares rose slightly ahead of the Fed's latest interest rate decision, with investors hoping for clues on how the Fed will control inflation.

Product regulation will lead to a drop in innovation and "inevitable" extra costs for financial advisers, Chris Cummings says.

Government-owned banks are offering the most competitive mortgage deals, according to data from Evaluate Technologies.

Financial advisers will now be able to get a firmer grasp of the financial health of the companies with which they trade.

The Government will fail to protect millions of Britons from poverty in old age unless it makes vital changes to the way it introduces Personal Accounts, an influential report concludes.

Jersey's Government has refuted claims the actions of one Lloyds offshore banker exposed on a BBC Panorama programme are representative of practices on the island.