Acquisitive Financial Planning and wealth management firm Kingswood has acquired Glasgow-based financial adviser Strategic Asset Managers Limited (SAM) for £5.1m.

Quilter’s new chair designate Glyn Barker is to step down from the board for personal reasons.

The FSCS has today declared two regulated advice firms as failed, opening the door to compensation claims.

Eight regulated firms which appear to be connected have gone into liquidation following FCA action.

Financial Planning Today is pleased to announce the winners of our Financial Planning Today annual survey prize draw.

Expanding wealth manager and Financial Planner MKC Wealth has signed a deal with Sevenoaks-based Chartered Accountants Samuels LLP to provide Financial Planning advice to the firm’s clients.

A major new study suggests that 3.3m pre-retirees have started ‘phasing’ into retirement by reducing hours and cutting back responsibilities.

A total of over £114bn has been invested in Automatic Enrolment pensions by nearly 11m people since they were first launched 10 years ago, new government figures published today show.

Platforms had their worst three months in a decade in the third quarter as market wobbles and a wave of bad news took their toll, according to a new report from platform and investment research company Fundscape.

Former Economic Secretary to the Treasury Harriett Baldwin MP has been elected chair of the influential Treasury Committee.