Parmenion has partnered with Russell Investments to enable advisers to invest in a suite of 10 discretionary managed and risk-rated Russell Investments model portfolios through the Parmenion platform.

Financial research consultant F&TRC has launched what it believes is the first workplace pensions ‘robo-paraplanner’ to make it easier for advisers to help employers select the right scheme for staff.

Prestwood has called for the introduction of “mandatory” cashflow modelling to be used in retirement planning to tackle mis-selling.

Embark Group, the diverse financial group with a Financial Planning arm and £11 billion in client assets, has launched its own platform with the aim of ‘disrupting’ the current platform sector.

Old Mutual Wealth Private Client Advisers has acquired IFA firm Coleman Clough of Shipley, West Yorkshire, to add £33m in assets under advice to its national Financial Planning business.

Two companies have been placed in provisional liquidation following an investigation by Company Investigations Unit of The Insolvency Service.

The Financial Conduct Authority is calling for better protection for vulnerable clients in a new ‘Approach to Consumers’ report published today.

Leading pension transfer provider Selectapension Bureau Services (SBS), part of Selectapension, is now unlikely to resume pension transfer business in the near future after its DB transfer partner decided to withdraw from the market.

Kevin Doran has been appointed as chief investment officer and managing director at AJ Bell Investments, a provider of online pension, investment and stockbroker services.

The Office of Tax Simplification is calling for radical simplification of VAT including a move to bring nearly all businesses inside the VAT system.