MoneyManagement ISSUE 01 June 2008 >> News Analysis

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Top 10 online stories

The 10 most read stories on the Money Management website at FTAdviser.com. from 19 April to 19 May were as follows:

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Newcastle PIBS

CORRECTION: In the May issue of Money Management, Newcastle Building Society (NBS) was listed as having a Standard & Poor's BBB+ rating and that this was responsible for its drop in PIBS value.

Money for something

FSA top executives say staff deserved £13.9m bonus despite catastrophic year

Back on tracker

Tracker funds have had a net inflow of £64.3m in the first quarter of 2008, ending a run of poor retail sales. There were six consecutive quarters of outflows over the past 18 months, ending with an outflow of £59.6m at the end of 2007, according to the latest figures from the IMA

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Insurers tackle non disclosure

Rejected critical illness claims are down

Improving your AIM

Noble Fund Managers has launched a new guide to the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), the sub market of the London Stock Exchange on which smaller companies are traded.

Lenders reduce risk exposure

Yet more lenders reduce their maximum LTV as market contracts

Opinion split over AMCs

The Investment Management Association (IMA) has controversially backed an annual management charge (AMC) as the most simple form of financing personal accounts when they are introduced in 2012.

Retirement risk

HSBC has highlighted the need to diversify income and risk in retirement, rather than being too dependent on one source.

Elite leader appointed

Winterthur has appointed a new head of investment distribution to manage relationships with investment houses and lead the provider's Tailored Selection and Elite range of funds.

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Taxing decision

In order to compensate those who are worse off following the abolition of the 10% tax band, the Government is increasing the personal allowance by £600 for the 2008/09 tax year only.

Ray of hope

Is protection the answer to adviser income woes?

A new horizon?

Aegon latest insurer to launch third way annuity

With profits review published

Investec Asset Management has launched the second edition of its 'With profits review pack', which aims to guide advisers through what Mark James, Investec director of strategic alliances, calls "the complicated maze of the with profits sector."

Lender changes compliance strategy

Barclay's division quits standards body

A right old state

DWP argues against state pension criticism

Lehman delists mortgage brands

US investment bank drops IMLA registrations


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