Certified Financial Planner professionals in the UK are to offer consumers pro bono guidance on coping financially with the Coronavirus outbreak via a series of money guides.

Wealth manager St James’s Place is to withhold a third of its proposed 2019 final dividend until the impact of the Coronavirus outbreak becomes clearer.

The STAR initiative, the cross-industry group aiming to improve the transfer of pension and investment assets between providers, is to seek a new chairman following the decision by its chairman Tom McPhail of Hargreaves Lansdown to leave the industry.

For most people working in Financial Planning the working day has changed radically since the outbreak of Coronavirus and working from home guidance from the government. In this occasional series we’ll be asking people working in the profession to tell us how they schedule their working days.

First David Inglesfield, chief executive of fast-growing Financial Planning and wealth management firm IWP (Independent Wealth Planners).