The Financial Services Authority has just done a review of wealth management companies – the people who service the needs of the very rich. There are about
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Between midday and midnight yesterday something like  40 comments were posted on this blog. Some I truly appreciated. Many were nit-picking irrelevance. I suspect 95% or more
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The Guardian reports: George Osborne is to give government backing to plans that will force banks to ring-fence their high street operations in an attempt
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The FT has reported: Bank chiefs’ average pay in the US and Europe leapt 36 per cent last year to $9.7m, according to data compiled for the Financial
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I’m speaking to the National Pensioner’s Convention today at Blackpool. It’s a long way to go from Norfolk to make a speech, but pensioners matter,
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Manx Radio have reported: Health Minister David Anderson says the Isle of Man must remain prepared to fight the United Kingdom over revisions to the
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Prof Field and the Future Forum have reported on Lansley’s NHS reforms and found them wanting. Badly wanting. It does look like there will be some
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A while ago I suggested two groups of tax evaders that HMRC should pay attention to. They were private tutors and users of e-bay. People
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