News

David Brunning, director of IFA Brunning Newman Houghton (BNH), says the firm is seriously considering launching a separate structured products business to market the vehicles to clients without advice.

It will be "extremely difficult" to encourage people to pre-fund for long term care, Aviva says.

Neptune Investment Management has appointed Andrew Taylor as intermediary sales manager with responsibility for Northern England and Scotland.

Commission payouts are still at the forefront of advisers' minds despite the recent focus on fee-based structures in the RDR.

London-based IFA Bradbury Hamilton has completed the acquisition of the 10,000-strong client bank of a liquidated adviser firm.

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) Financial Services Commission (FSC) has issued a raft of warnings about unregistered financial services firms illegally operating in the region.

The industry must not expect "instantaneous results" with regards to the implementation of personal accounts, pensions minister Angela Eagle warns.

ProShares has released a 130/30 ETF on NSYE Arca, representing the first fund in its new Alpha ProShares category.

A "severely" ill director of an insurance brokerage has been banned by the FSA for failing to control the firm adequately.

The number of whistleblowers' breach of law reports rose to 532 in 2008/9 up from 513 the previous year, according to The Pensions Regulator(TPR).