A quarter of working adults without income protection would like to have it, according to financial resilience research from protection specialist LV=.

The cost-of-living crisis is likely to increase the number of clients seeking to give lump sum cash gifts to adult children, financial advisers say.

The new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has refused to be drawn on whether the state pension will be uprated in line with the triple-lock.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has declared as failed a Midlands financial adviser hit with a string of claims related to pensions and SIPPs.

Mark Steward, the Financial Conduct Authority’s executive director of enforcement and market oversight, will leave the regulator next spring.

West Lancashire-based financial adviser Acumen Financial Partnership has appointed a new Financial Planning co-ordinator.

It was was a landmark government u-turn yesterday when new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt scrapped almost all of the mini-Budget published by his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng.

Fund manager Fidelity has launched two ‘custom-designed’ OEIC funds exclusively for clients of Wolverhampton-based Chartered Financial Planners Howard Wright Financial Planning.

Adviser platform Transact has reported net inflows during the quarter to the end of September of £720m, down from £1.3bn on the same period in 2021.

The Financial Conduct Authority has this year restricted twice as many firms in the investment market as it did last year, it has reported.