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Parmenion has launched its own in-house pension account as a complement to its range of third-party SIPP wrappers.

The trend for increased capital expenditure and M&A activity is spreading to the property sector as firms begin to upgrade their offices after years of delays.

Aviva Investors is to close its UK Absolute Return fund, run by Trevor Green, as well as Peter Fitzgerald's Diversified Strategy fund, Investment Week can reveal.

Brandeaux is plannning to float the portfolio of its Student Accommodation fund in a bid to help meet redemption requests.

Chancellor George Osborne is in danger of emulating Robert Maxwell "as a destroyer of pension savings" with plans for a retirement 'guidance guarantee', Tom McPhail has warned.

BlackRock has reduced prices on its iShares Core Series range for European investors, just a week after Fidelity Worldwide Investment cut prices on its own core range of passives.

Natixis Global Asset Management has hired three new UK sales managers in a bid to expand its presence in the advice and platform spaces.

Workers are to be given the option of saving into new 'collective' pension schemes which ministers believe could boost their incomes by up to 30%, under plans to be unveiled in the Queen's Speech later this week.

Standard Life has enhanced its wrap platform with the launch of a specialist investment hub aimed at users with discretionary permissions, as it taps into the growing number of adviser firms changing their business models.

The Japanese stock market hit an eight-week high following the release of strong China manufacturing data and improving domestic consumer sentiment.