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The chief executive of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is "sympathetic"to calculating the scheme's levy based on the risk posed by specific businesses.

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Fund managers are facing pressure to buy high risk assets in order to meet their funds' targets in an environment of falling equity volatility.

A number of financial advisers have yet to grasp the difference between risk-rated and risk-targeted funds, a survey of 700 practitioners suggests.

In this week's quick fire poll we ask: Should the baby boomer generation take more investment risk in the run-up to retirement?

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Confidence among UK savers is growing with a third planning to increase the amount they invest in the next 12 months, a survey has revealed.

Verbatim Asset Management, the investment arm of the SimplyBiz Group, is to provide its independent investment process to restricted national Sandringham Financial Partners.