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Old Mutual's Stephen Message is looking to life companies with their own platforms to boost dividend payments for his fund.

Financial advisers are being invited to cast their votes in three key categories at the Aberdeen UK Platform Awards.

The recent defeat by HMRC to levy a 55% tax on investors in a delisted Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme (QROPS) is likely to see a further tightening up on overseas pension transfer rules.

M&G Investments' top performing bond fund manager Richard Woolnough has argued the global economy is in a much healthier place than GDP figures suggest.

Japan's decision to stimulate its economy much later than other developed nations has left it positioned to be the best performing stock market, according to Ruffer's Steve Russell.

The price of gold has continued its decline, falling below the $1,200 mark on Thursday for the first time since August 2010.

Mike Riddell, bond fund manager at M&G, has warned if emerging market debt outflows continue at their current pace or worsen, the effect on the asset class is likely to be "cataclysmic".

The former chief executive of collapsed brokerage firm MF Global has been charged with misappropriating about £1bn of client money.

Richard Wilmot is underweight financials and mining stocks in his Newton Higher Income fund on fears about the impact of the underperformance of Chinese and wider Asian markets.

A leading member of the US Federal Reserve has tried to calm markets by stressing plans to start tapering its QE programme depend on the economy recovering.