A Financial Planning lecturer believes momentum is growing for a joined up financial literacy education programme which could include A-Levels. Read more ...

Teenagers at GCSE level age should spend more of their school time being taught basic Financial Planning, a CFP professional has suggested, as youngsters pick up their GCSE exam results this morning. Read more ...

A pensions expert says she has been disturbed to discover the new freedoms may be working to the detriment of many retirees as they take out their cash and stash it in savings accounts, suffering a tax hit as a consequence.

Details on dividend tax credit changes provided by HMRC are ‘misleading’, an accountancy firm has claimed. Read more ...

Six years in jail looms for a former financial advisor who stole over £356,000 from four elderly and vulnerable people, including one with cerebral palsy, the Crown Prosecution Service has reported. Read more ...

A pensions expert dubbed Mr Sipp says “huge damage” is being caused to the Sipp market by scandals related to failings in the sector. Read more ...

Face to face meetings between IFP members and the board about a proposed merger with the CISI continue in Birmingham tomorrow. Read more ...

Radical reforms to pensions that enable them to be taxed like ISAs would endanger the chances of creating a national savings culture, a pension firm chief claims. Read more ...

Inflation rose slightly in July, moving to 0.1%, after it had fallen flat again in June. Read more ...

Further details on the changes to the taxation of dividends announced in the last Budget have been released by HMRC. Read more ...