The annual summit of wealth management trade association PIMFA, which represents 1,000 investment managers and financial advisers, got underway this morning.

The triple pensions lock and rising average earnings mean that the State Pension will rise by around 4% in April - an increase of about £350 a year.

Woodford Investment Management, the high profile fund manager set up by Neil Woodford, is to close after it lost most of its remaing fund management contracts.

National advisory firm Beaufort Financial has completed its newest partnership with Akrivis Wealth, the 19th such arrangement with an IFA firm.

Paul Feeney, chief executive of Financial Planning firm Quilter, has spoken movingly about his personal mental health “journey.”

Vanguard has today launched a new low cost UK fund.

The Embark Group has appointed of Lawrence Churchill CBE as its newest member of the company’s board of directors.

Neil Woodford has hit out at Link Fund Solutions after the administrator decided to pull the plug on his £3.5m Equity Income Fund.

Since the introduction of pension freedoms in 2014 the FTSE 350 buyout deficit - the amount required to transfer the pension liability to an insurer - fell by around £2.5bn.

Lofthouse Gate and Mortgage Find have become latest acquisitions for Financial Planning firm Fairstone.