Opinion

The best excuse coming out of last year’s MPs expenses scandal came from the lips of Anthony Steen.

Back in July, journalists and the care industry alike wondered why HSBC hurriedly closed market leader, Nursing Homes Fees Agency

The German central bank told me in no uncertain terms last week it was not printing Deutsche Marks, despite growing speculation - and a number of sources - pointing to the contrary.

Rathbones’ chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth gives his thoughts on the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement

With take up of sales in income protection (IP) by advisers so low, reflecting in low consumer sales, what could be done to the product to make it more attractive to IFAs, apart from increased commission?

My client has been reading about severity based payments for critical illness (CI) policies. I believe there is merit in polices that don't do this. In sales terms, what is the opposite side of the argument I can put to him?

The FSA is currently consulting on its guidance for payment protection insurance (PPI) and potential replacement products such as short-term income protection (STIP).

As public sector workers go on strike today, Mark Poulson, director of the Lang Cat, cuts out the political rhetoric and strips down the public sector pensions issue to cold hard numbers.

In what cynics would have called inevitable, the government yesterday backed down on auto-enrolment plans.

The publication today by the FSA of plans to ban the sale of "toxic" traded life settlement investments to retail investors serves to seal the fate of advisers who recommended Keydata.