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Citywire Investment News
- Ex-Cazenove partner jailed for 21 months for insider dealing
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:57:31 GMT
Former Cazenove partner Malcolm Calvert partner has been jailed for 21 months.
- FSA to link with ombudsman and OFT to form consumer committee
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:26:44 GMT
The Financial Services Authority has teamed up with the Office of Fair Trading and the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) to create a new consumer protection committee.
- The little-known boutique that dominated global equities in 2009
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:30:50 GMT
With three managers at the top of the global equity sector for 2009, it's time investors took notice of London-based investment boutique Treetop Asset Management.
- Ombudsman's Arch Cru decision overturned
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:07:18 GMT
Regulatory Legal has overturned a Financial Ombudsman Service ruling against an adviser who recommended the Arch Cru Investment Portfolio fund as a 'low to medium risk' investment.
BBC Business News
- Warning on public sector pensions
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:03:25 GMT
The amount of money paid as public sector pensions could more than triple in the next 50 years, says the National Audit Office.
- New York banking gains on London
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:01:22 GMT
New York and London have been ranked as the joint-top global financial centres according to new research.
- 'Slow start' for 2010 home sales
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:59:48 GMT
The number of homes sold in England and Wales at the start of 2010 was at a low level, a survey says.
- Fighting poverty
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:50:16 GMT
How Malawi hopes social enterprise will help
Citywire News
- Better to be wealthy than healthy in retirement
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:01:00 GMT
Three quarters of employees think wealth is the key to a happy retirement, according to NAPF survey.
- PPF boss says size not insolvencies driving riskier investment strategy
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:44:10 GMT
Pension Protection Fund (PPF) chief executive Alan Rubenstein denies that recent moves to a more aggressive investment strategy are driven by a surge in insolvency claims.
- The HSBC 1.99% mortgage is back again
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:53:10 GMT
HSBC is relaunching its 1.99% mortgage for borrowers who can afford a 40% deposit.
- FSA to link with ombudsman and OFT to form consumer committee
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:26:44 GMT
The Financial Services Authority has teamed up with the Office of Fair Trading and the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) to create a new consumer protection committee.
BBC News
- BNP teachers will not be banned
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:09:50 GMT
Members of organisations which may promote racism, including the BNP, will not be banned from being teachers, says a review.
- Blood pressure spike 'stroke key'
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:02:40 GMT
Fluctuations in blood pressure could be more important than high readings as a warning sign for stroke, say researchers.
- Homes evacuated in Armagh alert
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:01:56 GMT
A number of houses have been evacuated in Armagh due to a security alert, the police have said.
- Decapitated group 'were Vikings'
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:57 GMT
Fifty-one decapitated skeletons found in a burial pit in Dorset were those of Scandinavian Vikings, scientists say.
