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Citywire Investment News

• Tech trusts: should the betamax moments turn you off?
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:22:40 Z
  The tech sector has enjoyed a spectacular three-year run, but the wide discounts in the closed-end soace may be a telling sign investors still bear a grudge after the 2001 crash. 
  

• Investment complaints at Barclays Bank jump 77% in 2011
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:59:14 Z
  Complaints linked to investments at Barclays spiked between 2010 and 2011, despite a broader 30% fall in gripes about the bank's other services.
  

• FundsNetwork strikes platform deal with Barclays Stockbrokers
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:42:24 Z
  Fidelity FundsNetwork has struck an exclusive deal with the bank to provide its core fund platform in a move which will see it go head to head with the likes of Hargreaves Lansdown.
  

• Alan Miller teams with Deutsche to launch UK's first ETF of ETFs
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:25:09 Z
  SCM Private is launching the first exchange traded fund (ETF) of ETFs in the UK in conjunction with db X-trackers, to provide a low-cost, actively managed multi-asset strategy.
  

Citywire Money, Tax and Property

• How to pay for long-term care of your loved ones
  Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:29:23 Z
  The average person can expect to spend nearly 60% of their retirement in good health, but how will you pay for the other 40%?
  

• House prices see biggest rise in 10 years
  Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:19:30 Z
  Asking prices rose 4.1% in February ? the biggest monthly increase since April 2002.
  

• What is a mortgage and how do I get one?
  Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:12:23 Z
  We unpick the mortgage jargon to help you get to grips with the different types of loan that are available.
  

• Rents resume upward march
  Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:01:00 Z
  Following two months of declines, the average monthly rent in England and Wales rose 0.1% in January to £712.
  

BBC Business News

• Lin in 'Linsanity' trademark bid
  Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:16:10 GMT
  New York Knicks basketball player Jeremy Lin files to trademark the term "linsanity", used to characterize his rapid rise to NBA stardom.
  

• The tax credit system changes from April 2012
  Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:05:20 GMT
  How the tax credit system will change from April
  

• Journey around the public sector
  Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:05:10 GMT
  Public sector casualty seeks private sector job
  

• Small firms: How to expand
  Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:05:02 GMT
  Your latest start-up questions answered by our panel of experts
  

BBC News

• 'MP held over Parliament assault'
  Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:40:17 GMT
  A man, understood to be Labour MP Eric Joyce, has been arrested on suspicion of assault following a disturbance at the Houses of Parliament.
  

• Comic Frank Carson dies aged 85
  Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:22:38 GMT
  Northern Irish comedian Frank Carson, whose catch phrases included "It's a cracker", has died aged 85, surrounded by his family.
  

• US rivals spar in Arizona debate
  Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:14:08 GMT
  The four Republican candidates take each other on in a crucial TV debate days ahead of two key primaries in the US states of Arizona and Michigan.
  

• Homs reporters' deaths condemned
  Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:58:10 GMT
  The killings of two Western reporters in Homs and the reported deaths of 60 people across Syria trigger Western condemnation of Bashar al'Assad's regime.