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Citywire Investment News

• FSA: four risks for advisers in run-up to RDR
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:40:44 GMT
  The Financial Services Authority has highlighted four areas, including quality of advice and governance, it says advisers should focus on during the upheaval of the next two years.
  

• Bramdean Alternatives proposes pure private equity remit
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:42:29 GMT
  The board of Bramdean Alternatives is proposing to change the trust's name to Aberdeen Private Equity and to give it a pure private equity fund investment remit
  

• Five reasons why insurers are better investments than banks
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:38:05 GMT
  Stronger than hoped for results from Standard Life have shown again why insurers are better investments than banks.
  

• Grant Thornton?s top 10 Budget predictions
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:53:42 GMT
  With Gordon Brown announcing that the Budget will be held on march 24, the tax experts are dusting off their crystal balls
  

Citywire Money, Tax and Property

• Online banking fraud up by 14% amid wave of 'phishing' attacks
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:01:33 GMT
  Online banking fraud rose by 14% to £60m in 2009, while card fraud dropped for the first time in three years.
  

• The economy is not yet out of danger, Gordon Brown warns
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:49:21 GMT
  You can trust me, prime minister says, as he unveils a pay freeze for doctors, dentists, and hospital consultants.
  

• Consumer groups attack delay to reform of PPI market
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:36:31 GMT
  Consumer bodies urge Financial Services Authority to push ahead with reform of PPI after it announces a further six week consultation period.
  

• Euro equities face long debt struggle in wake of Greek crisis
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:01:00 GMT
  Economists warn that austerity measures in the PIIGS will result in a protracted period of low growth.
  

FT.com - Financial Markets News

• Stocks edge higher on hopes for global economy
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:22:06 GMT
  Global Markets Overview: FTSE All-World index remains becalmed near six-week highs, with stock investors reluctant to push riskier assets higher without a fresh catalyst
  

• Debunking the myth of a China collapse
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:48:11 GMT
  Global sentiment towards China?s economy and asset markets has turned from exuberance just a few months ago to overriding concern about the side-effects of last year?s remarkable credit growth, writes Jing Ulrich
  

• Wall Street rises on bank deal speculation
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:43:30 GMT
  Ten years to the day after the Nasdaq reached its all-time peak, US stocks posted decent gains at the opening bell ? but lacked a positive driver to send them higher
  

• London mid-cap market enlivened by bid hopes
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:26:37 GMT
  Tullett Prebon raced to the top of the mid-cap FTSE 250 index on Wednesday, while Barrett was also boosted on the back of bid speculation
  

BBC Business News

• BA strike action talks continuing
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:08:58 GMT
  Talks aimed at averting strike action by BA cabin crew are continuing at the TUC, after a deadline was extended.
  

• EU rule change 'may cut red tape'
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:37:20 GMT
  Small firms may be exempted from having to draw up and lodge annual accounts, after MEPs approve changes to European Union rules.
  

• UK economy 'still growing weakly'
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:00:06 GMT
  The UK economy grew by 0.3% in the December to February period, says the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
  

• British Gas faces strike ballot
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:22:21 GMT
  British Gas workers are to vote in a strike ballot over allegations of bullying by management, and on changes to working conditions.
  

BBC News

• Kidnapped boy's father back in UK
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:03:45 GMT
  The father of a British boy kidnapped in Pakistan has returned home against police wishes, the BBC learns.
  

• Apology for women raped by father
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:54:09 GMT
  Two women raped by their father over 25 years - bearing seven of his children - are given an apology by authorities.
  

• 150 Toyota jobs to go on Deeside
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:52:41 GMT
  Around 150 jobs will go at the Toyota plant on Deeside, Flintshire, as part of 750 posts going across the UK.
  

• Body found in missing mother hunt
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:49:41 GMT
  Police searching for a Dundee mother who went missing two weeks ago say they have found a body.
  

FT.com - Your Pension

• Enhanced pension annuity sales rise
  Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:17:43 +0000
  Sales of enhanced annuities in the UK rose 24 per cent to £1.79bn in 2009
  

• Employees face more pension cuts
  Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:04:22 +0000
  Investors are being urged to take more control of their retirement savings, as workplace pensions come under increasing pressure.
  

• Rise in people retiring early
  Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:08:34 +0000
  Many people aged between 50 and 54 are retiring now ahead of the forthcoming rise in minimum retirement age to 55.
  

• Women at risk of financial gap in retirement
  Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:19:04 +0000
  Half of married men purchase a single life annuity instead of a joint one at retirement, leaving their spouses no pension income if the men were to pass away earlier, according to a latest Standard Life research.
  

FT.com - Your Tax

• Can I change divorce settlement to help pay tax?
  Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:15:11 +0000
  I am a UK entrepreneur living mainly abroad since my divorce. I was concerned to read that HM Revenue Customs recently won the right to levy £30m in back-tax on entrepreneur Robert Gaines-Cooper
  

• Naming and shaming law comes into force
  Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:55:35 +0000
  A fresh assault on tax evasion has been launched by HM Revenue Custom after new legislation allowing the publication of names and details of individuals and companies came into force on Wednesday
  

• Tax-free Isas lift interest rates
  Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:11:25 +0000
  Isa "season" gets underway with the launch of market-leading rates of 3.5 per cent for instant access cash Isas and 4.4 per cent fixed on a three-year bond.
  

• Why is taxman charging me interest?
  Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:07:02 +0000
  Revenue sent a "final reminder" for interest on "payments on account" going back to 2006/07 tax return.
  

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