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News and comment

Welcome to your on-line financial newsletter. This service is regularly updated to bring you news of important developments in financial matters.

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Citywire Investment News

• Ex-Cazenove partner convicted of insider dealing
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:07:35 GMT
  Malcolm Calvert has been found guilty on five counts of insider dealing and fined £56k
  

• FSA: four risks for advisers in run-up to RDR
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:40:44 GMT
  The Financial Services Authority has highlighted four areas, including quality of advice and governance, it says advisers should focus on during the upheaval of the next two years.
  

• High Court orders wind-up of Cru Investment Management
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:38:50 GMT
  The High Court has ordered the winding-up of Cru Investment Management, which marketed the six Arch Cru funds.
  

• Bramdean Alternatives proposes pure private equity remit
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:42:29 GMT
  The board of Bramdean Alternatives is proposing to change the trust's name to Aberdeen Private Equity and to give it a pure private equity fund investment remit
  

BBC Business News

• Winter insurance claims hit 650m
  Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:07:35 GMT
  Insurers paid out 650m from 335,000 claims made as a result of damage caused by the wintry weather in the UK.
  

• The Latin web
  Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:01:48 GMT
  Brazil exploits potential as web use spreads
  

• High flyer
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:56:52 GMT
  The extra ordinary life of the man from the Pru
  

• Bright ideas
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:50:59 GMT
  Why intellectual property is not a luxury
  

Citywire News

• Grant Thornton?s top 10 Budget predictions
  Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:01:00 GMT
  With Gordon Brown announcing that the Budget will be held on March 24, the tax experts are dusting off their crystal balls.
  

• Five reasons why insurers are better investments than banks
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:38:05 GMT
  Stronger than hoped for results from Standard Life have shown again why insurers are better investments than banks.
  

• Online banking fraud up by 14% amid wave of 'phishing' attacks
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:01:33 GMT
  Online banking fraud rose by 14% to £60m in 2009, while card fraud dropped for the first time in three years.
  

• Ten years after the tech bubble burst, the sector now looks cheap
  Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:07:57 GMT
  Tech is still only trading on a multiple of 1.1x the market - despite an anticipated MA boom as the new cycle of technology kicks in.
  

BBC News

• Fire College 'failed fire safety'
  Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:09:24 GMT
  The UK Fire Service College failed to comply with fire safety laws when part of its own premises burnt down, the BBC learns.
  

• Hospital rap over medicine errors
  Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:01:53 GMT
  Too many patients are not getting their medicines in hospital, a safety watchdog says.
  

• Councils told not to have 'goldfish bowl facilitated conversations'
  Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:48:11 GMT
  Wellderly, webinar and disbenefits are among new forms of jargon being used by the public sector, a survey reveals.
  

• GMP chief criticises report card
  Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:38:33 GMT
  The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) criticises a report grading the force poorly.