Economy

People in Great Britain are increasingly aware the state is not going to provide for their retirement or pay for their children to go to university but few appear to be taking financial steps to prepare for these key moments in life.

Most people in Britain still prefer to use traditional banking methods for their savings, rather than more modern, tax efficient facilities.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) schemes are proving a popular business tool, even though just one in 20 businesses (six percent) are measuring their effectiveness.

Over two-thirds (69%) of analysts in the City and Wall Street think the outsourcing of business critical processes can improve a company's share price. Meanwhile 64% think such outsourcing can have a significant impact on a company's profitability.

Fathers' financial advice is well received by their children, according to research commissioned by B&CE Benefit Schemes. Eight-eight per cent of those who asked their fathers for advice said they were glad they took it, compared with just 2 per cent who wished they had gone to a person qualified to give advice.

MORI research for Direct Line Travel Insurance shows that many holidaymakers who arrange travel insurance as part of their holiday spend little time discussing their insurance package.

Q1 Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way Gordon Brown is doing his job as Chancellor of the Exchequer?

Research on behalf of Norwich Union, the UK's largest insurer, into stakeholder pensions shows that only just over a half of people earning between 16310,000 and 16325,000 a year say they've heard of stakeholder pensions

Views of employers and employees on workforce mobility within the EU.