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Carol Stranger and Bryan Innes Lockhart Capital Management LLP (LCM) has appointed Carol Stanger to the role of Director in the Aberdeen office.

A struggling construction sector was revealed to be exacting a downward pull on overall growth UK GDP figures for the first quarter of 2018 released today by the Office for National Statistics show that UK GDP grew by 0.1 per cent over the period, the slowest growth observed since the fourth quarter

A Dundee businessman has been banned from being a company director in the UK for 11 years after an Insolvency Service probe found that he gained a £250,000 payment by lodging a false bank invoice.

Just under half (43 per cent) of 'Empty Nesters' in Scotland say they are not considering downsizing to a smaller property despite their children having ‘flown the nest’, according to the latest research from Bank of Scotland.

With increasing numbers now working past traditional retirement ages, stopping work can seem a long way off, especially for younger people, but new research from Prudential has revealed that the early retirement dream lives on, with nearly two thirds (60 per cent) of those stopping work this year a

Shareholders attending Alliance Trust’s AGM in Dundee yesterday heard how the firm’s investment business, Alliance Trust Savings (ATS), was last year forced to employ 100 additional members of staff in order to integrate systems spread across locations in both Edinburgh and the City of Discover

More than 100 young professionals working in financial services attended Scottish Financial Enterprise's first Young Professionals Annual Reception last night along with the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon.

Ross McEwan Royal Bank of Scotland has this morning reported a profit of £792 million for the first three months of 2018 year, up from the £259 million logged for the same quarter last year.

Mark Doleman, Lead Partner at Propel Propel by Deloitte, the global firm's cloud accounting service, has been appointed as the new preferred accountancy partner for the Scottish Sports Association (SSA).

Nigel Wilson Insurance giant Legal & General has announced the launch of a new wholly-owned division which aims to become the leading private affordable housing provider in the UK.

(from the back L-R): Rod Anderson, independent financial adviser; Paul McIntosh, partner; Ross Webb, partner; Sally-Anne Anderson, partner. Front (L-R): Paul Jennings, partner; Leona Duff, trainee solicitor; Jennifer Matthew, senior solicitor Aberdein Considine has completed a multimillion pound exp

Tim Cooper The number of corporate insolvencies in Scotland rose by 28 per cent during the first three months of this year compared with the final quarter of 2017 and rose by 67 per cent compared with Q4 2016-17 (January-March 2017), according to latest data.

Team Amiqus A pioneering project aiming to allow regulated professionals to securely collect client on boarding information and documents, has won business consultancy firm Deloitte’s prestigious Disrupt the Enterprise competition, an annual pitch competition inviting Scotland’s most disruptive

Alastair Keatinge Alastair Keatinge, Partner and Head of Charities and Social Enterprises at law firm Lindsays, warns charities of all sizes are struggling to deal with the tide of attempts to defraud them, posing a serious and very prevalent risk issue for trustees

Jeff Fairburn Edinburgh-based financial giant Aberdeen Standard Investments led a shareholder revolt against the £75 million bonus awarded to Persimmon Homes chief executive Jeff Fairburn at the firm’s AGM yesterday as it launched a withering attack on the package in which it stated that the role