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UBS has launched a discounted exchange-traded fund share class for institutional investors as part of its listing of 66 products on the London Stock Exchange today.

Chancellor George Osborne has pledged to use fines imposed by the Financial Services Authority to compensate taxpayers in the wake of the LIBOR scandal.

The government's proposal to separate out the liabilities for schemes within ring-fenced banking groups could pose a threat to covenants, a lawyer warns.

The UK economy shrank by 0.3% in the first quarter, the final official reading has confirmed.

Impaired life annuities could offset ‘unfair' rises in state pension age for groups with lower life expectancy, the pension minister says.

Employers are being put off adopting risk-sharing models by an unrewarding regulatory regime, the Association of Consulting Actuaries honorary secretary has claimed.

Two thirds of pension experts believe the government should consider creating a simple default option for annuity purchases.

More than forty percent of Warburtons' workforce are making investment decisions after a communications revamp by the £500m-a-year baker.

The National Association of Pension Funds chairman has called for government intervention in the defined contribution market to create up to ten super trusts of £10bn-£20bn each.

The Pensions Regulator will apply its features of good defined contribution schemes on a ‘comply or explain' basis, TPR chairman Michael O'Higgins has said.