A pensions firm's co-founder has predicted chaos if Scots vote for independence and says everyone in the financial services industry is keeping their fingers crossed that it does not happen.

A double takeover deal has been struck by AFH Financial to buy a client bank and an advisory firm, bringing its total funds under management to £840m. 

Sales of annuities have fallen by over a third between the first and second quarter of 2014, figures released this morning showed.

New statistics released this morning have shown 95% of men and women working in accommodation and food service industries had no private pension in 2010-12.

The advice gap appears to have been lifted up the list of priorities for the industry, an IFP board director says, after FCA chiefs were grilled by MPs this week.

Standard Life has revealed more about its plans to move some parts of its business away from Scotland if the referendum next week results in independence.

Tributes have been paid to a trailblazing adviser who "had a burning desire to change the image of his industry" after he passed away.

Barnett Waddingham has purchased Chase de Vere's Sipp and SSAS book for an undisclosed fee, it announced this morning.

A Financial Planner has become one of just six per cent to achieve a distinction in obtaining an accreditation that affirms his company's reputation for expertise in trust and estate planning.

A Treasury Committee member has questioned FCA chiefs this morning over how they expect the problem of potentially 16 million people falling through the so called advice gap to be solved.