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An annual benchmarking study into the operating costs of UK retail investment platforms has identified increasing cost efficiencies in the operation of both fund supermarkets and wrap platforms.

Aviva, the UK's largest insurer, detected over £110 million worth of insurance fraud in 2013 – a 19% increase compared with 2012.

Mid-tier accountancy firm Carter Backer Winter LLP has appointed Odhran Dodd, formerly a Partner at UHY Hacker Young LLP to head its new Corporate Finance department.

The stamp duty exemption for securities trading on growth markets, coming into effect on Monday 28th April, will give investors a further reason to back ambitious companies but is unlikely to have much impact on where issuers choose to list, says a partner at law firm Hogan Lovells.

The UK's “Big 6” energy companies are losing customers to smaller rivals so quickly that they will control under half the residential market in 2019, according to an energy price comparison site

Forecasts show UK economic growth in 2014 and 2015 of 3.1% and 2.2% respectively, up from forecasts of 2.8% and 2.0% released at the start of the year.

Specialist investor Chelverton Asset Management has confirmed the completion of its first deal since the launch last year of its Investor Club proposition.

Creditors face losing more than £150m per year if the Government follows through with plans to end an exemption for insolvency litigation from the ‘Jackson’ legal aid reforms, warns an independent report.

State-registered banks are the fastest growing bank wealth management segment in the U.S., according to new research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates.

Middle market investment bank Harris Williams & Co. announces a significant investment in leading emerging markets mobile monetisation company Upstream Telecommunications and Software Systems S.A., by Actis Capital LLP .

This week’s launch of My Learned Friend, a new social media style platform for legal research, discussion and debate could beckon in a new era in knowledge transfer for the legal sector.

Nearly two-thirds of yet-to-retire Brits (62%) say they think giving people more choice and flexibility in how they take their retirement income is a good idea

Hedge funds lost 0.09% in March, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge.

Temenos appoints Martin Frick as Head of APAC

deVere United Kingdom has launched its Workplace Solutions division.

STOXX Limited, a leading provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced that the EURO STOXX 50 Daily Leverage 3 and LevDAX x3 indices have been licensed to ETF Securities

The transition from one generation to the next can make or break a family business; and as the 'baby boomers' hand over to the 'millennials', the risks of getting it wrong have never been greater.

Emerisque Brands, a specialist, growth-oriented private equity sponsor based in Mayfair, announced today that Steve Back has joined the firm as an Operating Partner.

Native technology platform and network Adyoulike announces major UK acquisition to create European leader in native advertising

Clare Grout has joined the team of RiverPeak Wealth, the new wealth management firm.

Brooks Macdonald Group plc (“the Group”), the AIM listed integrated wealth management group, has announced that Brooks Macdonald Asset Management has acquired DPZ Capital Limited

The UK annuities market could decline by up to 75% after the recently announced changes to compulsory annuity purchase come into effect, according to PwC analysis supported by a new consumer survey.

The public need to be convinced that tough choices on upgrading national infrastructure are necessary, according to a new poll of more than 1000 members of the public by Ipsos MORI for the CBI.

Burden Of Proof In Criminal Tax Cases To Be Shifted Onto The Taxpayer HMRC To Get More Draconian Powers

According to research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates, advisor migration is projected to grow independent channels to 38% of asset marketshare through 2016.

Penney Frohling, Partner in Financial Services at EY, commenting on the Payments Council's six-month results for the new Current Account Switch Service

Teams of British accountants will help transform accounting standards and develop professional accountancy institutes in Africa and Asia, International Development Secretary Justine Greening has announced.

Public procurement of goods and services in 12 key emerging markets will almost triple to £452 billion by 2030 - but the UK will only capture £11 billion of this growth, if its market share stays the same.

The Latin American pension system has grown to more than US$900bn in assets under management, according to new research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates.

Company acquisitions can have a devastating impact on information security and management, with the employees of acquired firms more preoccupied with the potential impact on their role than with the need to effectively integrate the information of both companies.

The wealth and investment management division of Barclays has seen tremendous traction in its Asian structured products business, with volumes tripling from 2010. Asia now accounts for 50% of structured products sales in the private bank globally.

New research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates, predicts that target-date strategies will capture 63.4% of 401(k) contributions in 2018.

Ameripact today released its latest home-buying efficiency and money-saving tool, the Due Diligence Packet, a lender quality portfolio of information that includes everything a buyer needs to close on a home sale.

Only Six Taxpayers A Month Voluntarily Acknowledge They Have Committed Fraud Using HMRC Facility

The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has published its latest Investment Funds Industry Fact Sheet, which provides net sales of UCITS and non-UCITS for February 2014.

Rapidly expanding foreign exchange consultancy looks to PR to raise profile