Unbiased, the directory and lead generating service used by many Financial Planners and advisers, is to raise its charge for passing on consumer enquiries from 1 June - but has defended the increase as the first in four years.

The annual charges on AJ Bell’s range of six passive multi-asset funds have been cut to 0.35%.

Platform and SIPP firm AJ Bell has called for annual platform charges to be disclosed in pounds and pence.

Towards the end of last year I was invited to sit as part of a panel at a conference - a discussion on defined benefit pensions.