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FT.com - Your Pension

  • Final salary decision is looming faster
    Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:04:00 +0100
    People who want to leave their final-salary pension scheme and join a personal pension instead are being urged to act now before new rules prevent them from moving

FT.com - Your Investments

  • Inflation-beating Isa closes
    Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:10:02 +0100
    Huge demand from savers has prompted the withdrawal of the only account that guaranteed a return over inflation
  • Windfall Isa investors forced to sell bank shares
    Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:47:51 +0100
    Tens of thousands of investors with Fidelity, one of the biggest Isa managers, are being forced to sell their shares in a number of widely held banks after the fund manager announced the closure of its Windfall Isa
  • Trader's Diary: September's prospects are not so autumnal after all
    Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:45:00 +0100
    May, June and September were once regarded as the three worst months of the year for equity investors. But September is now winning this ignominious beauty contest, presiding over a fall in the UK stock market 12 times in the past 21 years
  • Hedge fund vehicles losing ground
    Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:37:39 +0100
    Listed fund of hedge funds, which aim to give investors a positive return in all market conditions, are continuing their fall from grace among private investors

BBC Business News

  • Alcohol drinking 'continues fall'
    Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:38:15 GMT
    Alcohol consumption has fallen faster than ever, figures from the British Beer and Pub Association suggest.
  • Explosion on Gulf of Mexico rig
    Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:32:12 GMT
    An explosion rips through an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the blast in April that caused a huge oil spill.
  • Massive Mini
    Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:27:46 GMT
    How far can BMW stretch the brand before it snaps?

BBC News

  • Cheryl Cole 'to be given divorce'
    Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:26:45 GMT
    X Factor judge Cheryl Cole will reportedly be granted a divorce from her footballer husband Ashley in a court hearing on Friday.
  • Class of its own
    Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:45:03 GMT
    Inside the Royal Navy's newest, most powerful attack submarine
  • Mozambique prices 'irreversible'
    Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:10:45 GMT
    The government of Mozambique says price rises which have led to deadly riots are "irreversible", as Maputo residents are urged to continue their protests.
  • BBC defends Thompson No 10 visit
    Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:01:32 GMT
    The BBC denies the director general compromised its independence by visiting Downing Street to discuss coverage of the govenrment's spending cuts.

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