The number of unemployed people in the UK was 2.63m in the three months to March 2012, down 45,000 from the three months to December 2011 but up 170,000 from a year earlier.
Prudential's Class of 2012 research has highlighted a lack of long-term planning when it comes to coping with ill-health in retirement, says Prudential.
Edouard Carmignac, chief executive of independent management firm Carmignac Gestion, was the first speaker at the second day of the Morningstar Investment Conference today.
Hendrik du Toit, chief executive of South Africa's Investec Asset Management, told delegates at the Morningstar Investment Conference 2012 in London that investment would become an increasingly global choice and the US was about to join in.
John Pattullo, head of Retail Fixed Income, Henderson Global Investors, told delegates at the Morningstar Conference 2012 in London that one of Europe's key problems was that people did not want to borrow.
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