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The Centre for Policy studies has proposed an annual savings limit of £45,000 across Isas and pensions with the aim of simplifying and encouraging savings.

For anyone involved in the manufacture, distribution and advice of investment funds, the latest set of statistics from the IMA make very welcome reading a month into the new decade and potentially point to a new era for the industry.

Corporate bonds remain popular with investors according to FundsNetwork, despite IMA figures showing net retail outflows for the sector of £11.8m in October.

Investors in green ISAs would be the first to benefit from further rises in the tax-free savings limit under a Tory Government, says shadow chancellor George Osborne.

Changes to the annual savings limit on Isas will give over 18 million investors the opportunity to increase their tax-advantaged savings, and would directly benefit over five million individuals

A year on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers and this is being marked as the anniversary of the credit crunch in common parlance, even though the reality was this single day was only part of the rebalancing of financial markets and economies, which...

With the Keydata debacle, have investors' concerns switched from counterparty to provider risk?

Despite being considered out of fashion, investment trust warrants are back, but in the slightly different guise of subscription shares

The key soundbite from last week's Retail Distribution Review that caught the eye of many parts of the media and industry commentators was the supposed ‘outlawing' of commission under the new agreement.

Over £33bn was invested in Isas during the 2006/07 tax year, the highest ever total subscribed to Is...