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Aberdeen Asset Management have awarded financial support to a café offering friendship and support alongside coffee and cake to those suffering from dementia, as part of this week’s Dementia Awareness Week. Alzheimer Scotland’s dementia café in Aberdeen – hailed as a lifeline to sufferers an

Fiona Hodgson Chartered Accountant Fiona Hodgson has been appointed as the new chief executive of the Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbing Employers’ Federation (SNIPEF).

Shirley McIntosh By Shirley McIntosh, tax partner at RSM.

A man fined for speeding by 9mph has decided to vent his frustration over the ticket by paying the fine entirely in pennies. Brett Sanders from Texas called the charge “extortion” and said he wanted to make the government work for the money.

Kevin Engel Business confidence levels in Scotland have fallen into negative territory for the first time in almost a year, making them among the lowest in the UK according to the latest ICAEW/Grant Thornton UK BCM.

Barry Benjamin Wealth management is one of the least tech-literate sectors of the financial services industry, and is falling well behind other industries, a report published today by PwC finds.

Amanda Frazer Four in five Scottish small firms are against plans to introduce a so-called ‘tourist bed tax’, according to a Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) poll.

Jordan Stodart By Jordan Stodart, chief marketing officer, with Orca Money.

Tim Tookey Alliance Trust Savings has appointed Tim Tookey as chair of the Alliance Trust Savings Board.

Murray Mackay ICAS has announced its first ever Principal Partnership with Investec Wealth & Investment as part of a new approach to partnerships.

Stephen Lochhead Standard Life has announced the appointment of Stephen Lochhead to the role of Global Talent and Organisational Development Director.

A background in finance continues to be the most common career background of today’s FTSE 100 CEOs (55 per cent), compared to 21 per cent in retail/hospitality, 15 per cent in engineering/natural resources, 15 per cent in marketing and 14 per cent in technology. Almost one in four (23 per cent) CE

Standard Life has announced it will be cutting 70 jobs from its IT department in Edinburgh. The firm said it hoped to make the reductions through voluntary redundancy at its offices throughout the city.

In Canada, an ‘unappreciated’ mother has invoiced her son for roughly £20,000, after financially supporting him for 13 months and receiving no recognition for it. The bill included a charge of around £520 for being “an a******”.

Lord Smith of Kelvin Shares in the Dundee-based Alliance Trust rose by over 3 per cent this morning following the news of a takeover approach by Jacob Rothschild’s RIT Capital Partners.