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Invesco boosts global ETF offering with Source deal
US-based investment manager Invesco has announced a deal to buy one of Europe’s major Exchange Traded Product (ETP) providers, Source.
UAE to push ahead with major life industry overhaul
The main regulator of life companies in the UAE has confirmed it will go ahead with a ban on indemnity commissions, limits to fees and charges on industry products and tighter rules on financial advisers.
Tax & Regulation | news 27 Apr 17
Chelsea is latest football club embroiled in HMRC tax probe
Chelsea is the latest Premier League football club to become involved in a £5m (€5.8m, $6.4m) HMRC investigation into tax fraud after Newcastle and West Ham were raided earlier this week.
Investment | news 26 Apr 17
Beware of highly-leveraged US stocks
Highly-leveraged US companies face a disproportionate rise in interest payments as the Fed has started hiking. But investors aren’t being compensated for this at all.
Qrops ‘fire sale’ averted as reforms survive Finance Bill cull
Reforms overhauling overseas pension transfers may have survived the UK government’s wide-ranging cull of the Finance Bill in a bid to avoid a “fire sale” of Qrops, according to Rachael Griffin, financial planning expert at Old Mutual Wealth.