Scottish Widows Investment Partnership is in exclusive talks to acquire property from BAA Airports.

Standard Life Investments has reported a 67% increase in net third party sales in 2009, with more than 80% coming from outside the UK.

Fitch Ratings has delivered a serious blow to the credibility of the Government's budget plans, warning that Britain risks a loss of investor confidence and erosion of its AAA rating unless it maps out clear austerity measures.

Aegon has switched the pricing of the £1bn Aegon Scottish Equitable Property fund from a cancellation to a creation basis to reflect recent positive inflows.

The City's leading investment banks are falling over themselves to get a slice of the $700m in fees on offer from Prudential's record $21bn rights issue.

More than 60 leading economists have backed Alistair Darling's decision to delay spending cuts until 2011, creating a dividing line within the profession on the crucial general election issue of how to tackle the UK's huge public debt.

Semperian, a £1.3bn property fund spun out of Land Securities, has pleaded guilty to an FSA charge of failing to ask for the regulator's approval when it bought an FSA registered business.

George Soros doubled his investment in the world's largest gold fund just weeks before claiming investing in the precious metal is now the "ultimate bubble".

Net retail fund of funds sales totaled £3.9bn last year, almost four times the 2008 figure and the highest ever recorded.

A key estimate of UK GDP suggests output increased in the three months ending in January, but indications of a more substantial recovery are still wide of the mark, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.