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HSBC Master Trust has become the first new master trust to be authorised by The Pensions Regulator which has so far focused on authorising existing schemes.
A Japanese fund - Legg Mason Japan Equity - has topped the best performing funds over the past decade but the best performers were a mixed bag with no single sector dominating.
The Office for National Statistics says its research has found that men and women both report enjoying the happiest times of their lives between ages 65 and 74.
Curtis Banks, the SIPP and SSAS provider, has predicted that growth in the retirement advice sector in 2020 will come mainly from pension savers and advisers changing or switching existing drawdown plans.
The lack of Professional Indemnity insurance availability for IFA firms is ‘the biggest threat to adviser businesses’ in 2020, the chairman of Beaufort Group Simon Goldthorpe has warned.
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Kingswood, the wealth manager and Financial Planner, is to acquire a fledgling Californian investment adviser in a deal worth £3.1m, its second acquisition of a US advisory firm.
Global private equity group Carlyle is set to buy the three-year-old, acquisitive Financial Planning firm Harwood Wealth Management for £90.7m in a recommended cash deal.
Gaudi, the SIPP and platform fintech business, has recruited three industry 'big hitters', including ex-AXA Elevate managing director David Thompson.
The appointment of Andrew Bailey as the new Bank of England Governor today came as little surprise but it does open to door to opportunities for a new direction for the FCA.