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It is no secret that the days of opportunity and prosperity have long since passed in Europe as now the focus of the news headlines seems to be a constant drizzle of information about the recession, the Eurozone crisis, and of course a potential banking collapse again. All of this information combined is enough to make [...]  Researchers recently have claimed that pension funds are hiding over £3 billion in costs from their investors. This money is being hidden by excessive trading that causes little improvement in a pension fund performance. The researcher has come out of wealth management company, SCM Private which is showing that pension funds in the UK keep [...] An initiative has been launched where volunteers become ‘snowfriends’, and visit the homes of those most vulnerable to ensure that they are okay and to offer them assistance throughout the bad weather. This campaign has come about after the big freeze of 2010 and the ensuing problems, including those brought about by freezing temperatures last winter, [...] Payment Protection Insurance or PPI is being routinely miss sold by some of the UK’s leading banks. PPI is something that offers insurance for credit agreements has seen its sales increase four fold in the last year. HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds TSB and Santander have been named as the biggest offenders. Lloyds alone is receiving a [...] While it’s important to keep up-to-date with how the Government is planning to deal with the national deficit in the US, it’s also interesting to look into how other countries – with economies closely linked to the US economy – are planning to raise money to cover their spending. In this guide, we’re going to focus [...] Compliance crackdown for London Company’s Over the coming weeks the first task force will be targeting businesses in London focusing on the restaurant trade. In specific locations and high risk trade sectors across the UK, intensive bursts of compliance activity will be undertaken by specialist teams. The next targeted areas will then be the restaurant [...] The ‘Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area’ has just been published by the EU, more specifically The ‘Transport 2050 Road Map’ is a document that looks into the future of the European Unions direction for what they call ‘sustainable and competitive transport’ that is intended to be a ‘White Paper’ on how they see [...] |
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