Funds

HM Revenue & Customs has withdrawn VCT approval for the Oxford Technology trust after it was found to have breached rules over the amount it held in a single firm.

Hargreaves Lansdown received over 600 individual deals on fund prices before it decided which funds would make it onto its new Wealth 150 + list, Investment Week can reveal.

The state pension age should rise to 70 by 2040 - more than 20 years earlier than scheduled under government changes - the former chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) Lord Adair Turner said last night.

The Witan Investment trust has said it will continue to invest in funds which charge performance fees as it revealed a strong set of results for 2013.

The Standard Life wrap is launching a third party discretionary fund management (DFM) service for advisers.

Ensuring direct-to-consumer (D2C) platforms do not stray into advice has become an "obsession" that is ultimately stunting innovation, a report has concluded.

Share prices are rising faster than corporate earnings to create a "potent cocktail" that could lead to disappointment in equity markets, according to Ruffer.

Barclays Stockbrokers has cut the charge on its self-invested personal pension (SIPP) just weeks after revealing its clean pricing structure.

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Peter Mann is to retire from Old Mutual Wealth in the middle of 2014.