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Crisis? What crisis?

00:01 | 24 Aug 2008 | By Steve Bee

Should we be afraid of the demographic timebomb?

Market tactics: Gilts

00:01 | 23 Aug 2008 | By Tim Cooper

The flight to quality and away from volatile equities continues to shore up the gilts market. However, the tide of rising inflation seems to be rapidly heading up the beach and taking over as the most important factor affecting this market.

Sustainable investment 'can protect against risk'

09:30 | 21 Aug 2008 | By Michelle McGagh

Should sustainable investment be considered more future proof than ethical as an investment strategy?

Clancy’s beer money goes on worthy cause

00:01 | 21 Aug 2008 | By Daniel Grote

A Northumberland-based adviser helps raise £5,000 for a local charity for children diagnosed with cancer

Got a Sipp? You may be hit by a tax hike

09:30 | 20 Aug 2008 | By Maryrose Fison

A hefty tax bill could be coming your way because of a loophole in the way that Sipp statements are regulated, say pension providers.

Book review: The One Minute Millionaire, by Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G Allen

00:01 | 17 Aug 2008

Everyone who becomes wealthy in the modern world knows the power of leverage – using other people’s resources and technology to multiply the effect of what to do.

Broker fined £100k over false mortgage applications

12:20 | 11 Aug 2008 | By Nicholas Paler

A six-figure fine has been dished out by the regulator after it found a London-based broker had submitted false mortgage applications.

Private client managers beat market in credit crunch

10:20 | 06 Aug 2008 | By Charlie Parker

New data shows private client managers have largely succeeded in beating the market over the recent difficult quarter for equity markets.

Book review: Prosperity, by Charles Fillmore

00:01 | 03 Aug 2008

All wealth begins and ends with God, therefore gratitude for what you have is the master key to prosperity.

Book review: By My Guest, by Conrad Hilton

00:01 | 27 Jul 2008

Having a dream and thinking big are the basic elements of all great enterprises and fortunes.

Consumer panel urges insurers to improve complaints handling

10:39 | 24 Jul 2008 | By Gavin Lumsden

Life companies are getting worse at handling complaints from the public, a survey by the Association of British Insurers' Consumer Impact Panel, chaired by former Treasury minister Melanie Johnson, has found.

Book Review: Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson

00:01 | 19 Jul 2008 | By Tom Butler-Bowdon

Don’t be afraid to be different. On entering any new field or an industry, aim to really shake it up and provide new value.

AXA dismisses fears over new marketing strategy

09:30 | 15 Jul 2008 | By Richard Harris

AXA has denied it is seeking to poach adviser clients after setting up a marketing team to target the millions of customers with whom it is no longer in contact.

Book Review: Ask and it is Given, by Esther and Jerry Hicks

00:01 | 13 Jul 2008 | By Tom Butler-Bowdon

As long as you are in a state of mind and being that is ready to receive, you can have whatever you want.

Legendary investor Sir John Templeton dies at 95

09:28 | 09 Jul 2008 | By Nicholas Paler

Sir John Templeton, mutual fund manager and entrepreneurial global investor who was one of the pioneers of global stock picking, has died of pneumonia aged 95.

Book review: The Abundance Book, by John Randolph Price

00:01 | 29 Jun 2008

Life is in part a test to see if we can learn the laws of abundance, specifically the law of all-sufficiency

Rathbone Greenbank boosts TV chef's crusade to help Tesco chickens

00:01 | 25 Jun 2008 | By Richard Harris

Ethical investment specialist Rathbone Greenbank rallied its clients to back hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's campaign to free Tesco chickens, which culminates on Friday at the supermarket's AGM.

Mythbusters: With-profits are dead

00:01 | 25 Jun 2008 | By Sonia Speedy

With-profits is still a valid investment option and a rise in sales growth in financially strong with-profits providers shows that it's not over just yet.

Book review: Do What You Love

00:01 | 22 Jun 2008

Though we can’t control when, the decision to do what we love sooner or later pays dividends.

UN urged to push private capital on global warming

10:34 | 20 Jun 2008 | By Richard Harris

Governments must do more to encourage entrepreneurial risk-taking in the fight against global warming, the UN was told last week at the General Assembly on global private investments and climate change.

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