In this exclusive Guest Column for Financial Planning Today, Matthew Connell, director of policy and public affairs at the Personal Finance Society, looks at client compensation and asks whether advisers are being penalised.

Former HSBC global head of strategy Chirantan Barua has been appointed as the new CEO of insurance, pensions and investments provider Scottish Widows.

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has hosted its first in-person graduation ceremony since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic with more than 330 attending the event.

All FCA-regulated firms should, by now, have put in place their implementation plans for meeting the Consumer Duty requirements by 31 July 2023 (a later date applies for legacy products). 

John Moret is one of the UK's leading pensions and SIPP experts and commentators. As he enters his 75th year, still working part-time, he begins the first in a monthly series for Financial Planning Today looking back at his long career and key topics which have steered the pensions sector. He starts with a timely look at the Chancellor's pension bombshell Budget delivered only yesterday. 

Fund manager Fidelity International has launched a Paris agreement-aligned sustainable ETF, expanding its range of climate-focused investment solutions.

Nearly one in five (19%) of women in their 30s are failing to save for retirement, according to a new report.

Over two thirds (68%) of adults want the State Pension raised in line with inflation in tomorrow’s Autumn Statement, according to a new poll.

Almost a third of people aged over 55 are changing their retirement plans due to the current cost of living crisis, according to new research.

Financial Planners’ confidence about the next 12 months has taken a dive as clients are faced with the dual impact of low investment returns from bumpy markets and soaring inflation, according to our annual Financial Planning Reader survey.