Research house Standard and Poor’s (S&P) will not charge up front fees to funds management groups to be rated marking a departure from its globally used pricing system....

Master trust provider Strategic Investments will change its name to Finium Financial Services as part of a relaunch designed to distance itself from other groups and emph...

The financial services industry’s preoccupation with large-scale business operations is creating significant performance issues for bigger players in the industry, argues...

Financial planners and dealer groups may be held liable for incidental advice or even casual comments after a recent decision by the Financial Industry Complaints Service...

The managed funds industry has recorded positive inflows for the first time this year after total assets under management rose to $670 billion at the end of June, a $37 b...

The long term profit outlook for the life insurance market will remain poor for the immediate future as it remains linked to the low performance of equity markets and sad...

Hedge funds may have prospered from a move to absolute returns in recent years but strong performance figures are no guarantee they will continue to benefit argues Goldma...

Two former IWL staff, Laila Khodr, Jenny Lee-Koksal and one of the creators of Visiplan, Robert Green, have set up a new group aimed at helping advisers purchase and full...

452 Capital, the boutique funds management operation started by ex-Perpetual senior analyst Peter Morgan, will refrain from taking on any further large-scale clients for ...

A national scheme of professional standards legislation will lower the cost of professional indemnity (PI) insurance and remove restrictions on the services offered by fi...