Investment

The FCA's five key tests for investment advice

Advice firms have raised fears over "systemic mis-selling" through simplified advice and said ongoing regulatory uncertainty has stifled market developments, according to the FCA.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has laid out for firms what it views as the differences between ‘information' and ‘investment advice' - and when information can be advice.

Guidance or advice?

Baillie Gifford's Stephen Rodger has argued fellow bond managers are unprepared for Japan-style deflation which is on the horizon in the West.

Old Mutual Global Investors was the big winner at the 19th annual Investment Week Fund Manager of the Year Awards, in a glittering ceremony held on Thursday at London's Royal Albert Hall.

Tobacco stocks pushed the FTSE 100 higher at open today after details of a mega-merger between two of the largest US tobacco companies reached final stages.

Barclays will scrap its 6,500-strong cashier team in October, converting them into 'community bankers' with iPads.

Taxpayers lost out on roughly £1bn in the Royal Mail initial public offering due to poorly-priced shares, MPs have said.

US market valuations are not near bubble territory despite being at record highs, with the current rally different to the pre-crisis period because of resurgent US growth, veteran US equity manager Ed Cowart has said.