ISA investors used ETFs to help boost their exposure to a range of commodities in the first quarter of the year, according to sales figures from Hargreaves Lansdown.

Commodity prices could rise by as much as 20% in the second half of 2012 while forecasts for falls in mining stocks are overdone, according to Credit Suisse.

Standard & Poor's (S&P) has reaffirmed its AAA credit rating for the UK and forecasts the government's net debt burden will peak next year.

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership(SWIP), the asset management arm of Lloyds, is shutting down a string of its regional investment desks with the loss of 23 investment roles.

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The investment management sector's low reported levels of compliance spending are "hard to believe", according to a quarterly survey from the CBI and PwC.

A strong performance from US and Asian stocks has helped push global equity indices to their strongest start to a year since 1998.

Lawyers for professional services group RSM Tenon have raised "serious concerns" about the quality of PwC's audit and advised Tenon may have a legal claim, according to reports.