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The commercial market in Scotland has remained steady, held up by office and industrial sectors although retail continued to decline, according to the latest RICS UK Commercial Property Market survey for Q3 2018.

Jo Douglas Jo Douglas, Financial Planner at Brewin Dolphin in Edinburgh, explores whether a generation caricatured as idle are actually facing an entire lifetime of toil

The NHS in Scotland is “not financially sustainable in its current form”, according to the Auditor General for Scotland.

The drawdown market faces its sternest test yet, with signs that pension fund returns are becoming more subdued and withdrawal rates are increasing, new data from the upcoming Moneyfacts UK Personal Pension Trends Treasury Report suggests.

Jamie Dora The UK residential land market is reflecting the shape of the housing market, as values fall in central London but continue to rise in other regions, with Scotland the standout performer, says international real estate adviser, Savills.

Aberdeen has seen 74 office lettings complete in the year to date, nearly double the number of deals to complete than in the same period last year (45 lettings) as the market continues to galvanise, says international real estate advisor Savills.

The UK remains the world’s leading net exporter of financial services, generating an industry trade surplus of £68bn (equivalent to $88bn) in 2017, nearly equal to the next three leading net exporting countries combined (the US, Switzerland, and Luxembourg).

Emma Hendron Accountancy firm Saffery Champness has today announced that partner Emma Hendron has been made head of the firm’s international practice group.

TSB has seen 16,000 of its customers vote with their feet in the aftermath of an major IT meltdown earlier this year which saw them locked out of their accounts.

Jamie Graves of ZoneFox and Niki McKenzie of Archangels Scottish business angel investment syndicates, Archangels and TriCap, Scottish Investment Bank and Napier University, have sold cyber security software specialist ZoneFox to US-based Fortinet in a deal the details of which have not been disclos

A bookkeeper who took advantage of her employer’s bereavements to embezzle £200,000 from a health company and a fish and chip shop has been jailed for 18 months.

Tim Cooper The number of personal insolvencies (bankruptcies and protected trust deeds) in Scotland have risen by nearly a quarter year-on-year, according to the Accountant in Bankruptcy's latest data.

An £18 million fund to help businesses benefit from developments in manufacturing is among the key actions announced in a new Scottish Government plan to help boost economic growth.

Global investment manager Schroders and Lloyds Banking Group have announced that they are entering into a strategic partnership to create a new wealth management proposition.

Gaelic as an Economic Asset award winner Feisean nan Gaidheal with Cathy MacDonald and sponsor Stephen Webster at the 2017 Gaelic Awards at the Grand Central hotel Wealth management company Thorntons Investments has underlined its support of Scotland’s Gaelic community by sponsoring the Gaelic as