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Best Practice | 4 Jun 18
UK sets out overseas compensation framework
Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), National Crime Agency (NCA) and Serious Fraud Office (SFO) have agreed a framework to speed up compensation claims from overseas victims of economic crime.
Europe bulls could eye UK on political shocks
UK equities could be a beneficiary of Spanish and Italian political turmoil, despite investors playing down existential risk to the European Union from the peripheral economies.
Legal & General exits Indian life venture with £45m profit
Legal & General Group is to sell its 26% stake in IndiaFirst Life Insurance to private equity firm Warburg Pincus.
Mattioli Woods suspends DB transfer advice service
UK-based Mattioli Woods has stopped providing pension transfer advice service to individuals with safeguarded benefits as the wealth manager undertakes a full review of its work in the area.
IFA firm acquisition costs face ‘upward pressure’ – AFH
Private equity and product providers are driving up the cost of buying bigger IFA businesses, according to serial acquirer AFH Wealth Management.


