Markets

Japanese shares soared overnight, with the Nikkei index seeing its biggest one-day gain for three months, as Asian shares rebounded after last week's slide.

Jupiter Asset Management's chief executive Edward Bonham Carter is to hand over his role to Maarten Slendebroek in March next year.

The IMA has launched an online review tool for the Targeted Absolute Return sector designed to help advisers and consumers find and compare funds.

The US unemployment rate has fallen to a five-year low, increasing the likelihood of a tapering of quantitative easing later this month.

Hargreaves Lansdown has flagged up five key investment themes to benefit from the announcements made in yesterday's Autumn Statement.

US treasury yields have jumped and US futures have fallen after the second reading of US GDP growth for Q3 saw a large upward revision.

Smith & Williamson has appointed Morgan Stanley's Michael Pagliari as investment management partner, its fourth hire in the investment management division in the last two months.

The government has today unveiled what it said was an unprecedented package of measures to tackle tax avoidance, evasion, fraud and error.

More workers will have to wait until age 68 for their state pension after the Chancellor confirmed entitlement rules would change quicker.

Non-residents will have to pay capital gains tax (CGT) on residential property sales in the UK from April 2015, reversing the current rule, George Osborne announced today.