Story by: Gareth Shaw, Money Management
The 10 most read stories on the Money Management website at FTAdviser.com. from 19 April to 19 May were as follows:
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.
FSA top executives say staff deserved £13.9m bonus despite catastrophic year
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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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.
Yet more lenders reduce their maximum LTV as market contracts
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.
HSBC has highlighted the need to diversify income and risk in retirement, rather than being too dependent on one source.
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.
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.
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."
Barclay's division quits standards body
US investment bank drops IMLA registrations
EXCLUSIVE: Windsor Life chief executive Jonathan Yates has spoken for the first time about how untrained staff and IFAs with "shopping lists" led to horrendous delays in customer service levels.
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