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Barclays Wealth has acted to cut its services for clients with less than £500,000, as it implements plans revealed last year.

The Chinese economy grew by 7.7% in 2013, the latest figures from the country have revealed, its slowest rate for 14 years.

One story dominated the headlines this week as Hargreaves Lansdown revealed its new pricing structure, but an insider dealing investigation and some fund tips for 2014 also enthralled readers.

Shares in oil giant Royal Dutch Shell have dragged on the FTSE 100 today, after the company issued a profits warning for Q4 this morning.

Alliance Trust Savings (ATS) is offering £150 cash back to customers who open a new account and transfer their investment from another provider to an ATS ISA or individual dealing account (IDA).

Last year was brutal for many fixed income investors as talk of tapering in the US and the great rotation to equities pushed up core bond yields. But which portfolios protected investors regardless - and could do so again this year?

Skandia has dropped HSBC's £152m ($251m) Frontier Markets fund from its platform because of the timing of its trading days.

Nick Train, a long-term backer of Hargreaves Lansdown, has said the platform's assets could hit £240bn by 2020 - a figure which would mean adding £200bn in AUA over the next six years.

Rathbones' chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth has labelled the apparent value in European equities ‘misleading', claiming the region is in for another year of anaemic growth.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed consultancy Promontory Financial Group and accountancy firm Mazars to lead its skilled persons (s166) review into the failures around the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)'s lending practices to small firms....