Nick Cann, chief executive of the Institute of Financial Planning, welcomed 120 delegates to the annual IFP Paraplanning conference this morning.

Paraplanners will be heading to Nottingham tomorrow for the Institute of Financial Planning’s second annual Paraplanner conference.

Ken Davy, founder of compliance firm SimplyBiz, has announced he is launching a new national advice firm aimed at the restricted advice market.

Defaqto has found that 47 per cent of Financial Planners plan to increase their qualifications from Level 4 to Level 6 by the start of RDR next year.

Financial Planner and IFP member Martin Bamford has received a response to his FSCS funding petition from Martin Wheatley.

There is less than a week to go for IFP members to put themselves forward to stand as a chairman for an Institute of Financial Planning branch.

Consumer price index (CPI) inflation fell from 3.5 per cent to 3 per cent in April, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Complaints against financial advisers accounted for just one per cent of complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service last year.

Financial Planners wishing to attend this year’s Institute of Financial Planning annual conference have only four days left to buy early-bird discounted tickets for the event.

One in five people have nothing saved for their retirement and less than half have saved ‘adequately’, according to Scottish Widows.