Nearly one in 20 (4%) of staff at fund and wealth manager M&G are to be offered voluntary redundancy as the firm continues to streamline its business.

M&G Wealth has added the full PruFund range of funds to its M&G Wealth Platform.

A new survey suggests that potentially 3.1m more people would consider paying for financial advice but many are held back by a lack of trust.

For as long as I’ve been writing about Financial Planning, several decades now, people have been fretting about the 'fact' that the average age of a Financial Planner is 105 (ok a slight exaggeration) and many planners are ready to quit, leaving an empty shell of a profession.