A new study has shown a dip in demand for financial services for the first time in five years.

Adviser network Openwork has strengthened its ambition to grow its UK financial advice proposition with the appointment of a new a head of recruitment and development.

Acquisitive national IFA firm AFH has made its first takeover of 2019 with the acquisition of Stourbridge-based Hayburn Rock Financial Planning in a £3.5m deal.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has revealed it has so far paid out £1.1m to former Active Wealth clients hit by the British Steel pensions debacle.

Brooks Macdonald expects to make 50 redundancies as part of a ‘streamlining’ of the business.

A new book on personal finance by Chartered Financial Planner Jason Butler was published today.

Walker Crips, which has a Financial Planning arm, has rebranded its private client stockbroking and investment management business to Walker Crips Investment Management Limited.

The Treasury has clarified that the long-awaited pensions cold calling ban - which came into effect yesterday - specifically applies only to voice calls.

Pension transfer values as measured by the XPS Pensions Group Transfer Value Index remained high during 2018, remaining relatively stable throughout the year until a more volatile December. 

Wealth planner Brown Shipley has appointed Richard McGregor as national head of Court of Protection & personal injury, a newly created role.