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An adviser jailed earlier this year for more than 40 fraud-related offences has been banned by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).

Threadneedle topped the UK net retail sales chart in Q3 2012 as investors - including John Chatfeild-Roberts' Jupiter Merlin multi-manager team - moved back into Europe, according to the latest Pridham Report.

Lazard's global equity income fund manager Pat Ryan has warned investors off buying tobacco companies after the rush to buy safe haven-style stocks sent valuations sky-rocketing.

US markets posted heavy losses for the second successive day of trading, amid fears Greece is set to default on a €5bn debt payment due next week.

If the US was to go off the fiscal cliff at the end of the year it would lead to a recession in the world's largest economy, the country's Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has warned.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will be run as a consumer champion and not for the benefit of member firms, according to a leading regulatory lawyer.

Skerritts Wealth Management has agreed a deal to acquire the assets of the client bank of Sussex-based IFA firm Finch's Financial.

Fidelity has revamped its Asian fund range in a move which gives the managers the ability to invest more of their portfolios in the onshore Chinese stock market.

Ed Morse, head of investment trust business development at F&C Investments, has left the firm to pursue a new opportunity in the industry.

The Bank of England has kept interest rates on hold for the 44th consecutive month and refrained from launching a fresh round of quantitative easing after recent data showed the UK exited recession in the third quarter.