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Stamp duty on Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) is to be abolished from April 2014 in a bid to encourage more firms to domicile products in the UK.

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.

The Chancellor George Osborne said the "great recession" seen after the global financial crisis in 2008 had an even more detrimental impact on the UK economy than previously forecast.

The Chancellor has cut the UK's borrowing levels substantially in the Autumn Statement, substantially revising down March's forecast.

The UK's surprise economic recovery looks on course to continue as Chancellor George Osborne raised his forecast for UK growth over the next few years.

Exposure to New Zealand caused the £4.4bn Newton Asian Income fund to significantly underperform its peers in November, as unexpected political risks rocked the local market.

Nicolas Trindade, manager of the AXA Sterling Credit Short Duration Bond fund, has been using in-house resources in a bid to diversify his floating rate note exposure.

The European Commission has collectively fined six international financial institutions €1.7bn (£1.4bn) for their involvement in the manipulation of benchmark rates.