Wealth manager EQ Investors is to host an impact investing webinar for Financial Planners tomorrow to coincide with Good Money Week which gets under way today.

Activist investment firm PrimeStone Capital LLP wants a radical shake-up of wealth manager St James’s Place after accusing the firm of having a "bloated" organisational structure and suffering dismal share price performance.

Fidelity has acquired Legal & General Investment Management’s UK Personal Investing business which manages £5.8bn in assets for 300,000 clients.

Financial services company Mazars, which has a substantial UK Financial Planning arm, has launched a global rebrand.

The Financial Services Bill received its first reading in Parliament this week as the Government focuses on getting the financial services sector ready for Brexit.

The FCA and PRA have hit Goldman Sachs International (GSI) with a fine of £96.6m for management failings in dealing with allegations of bribery and staff misconduct.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has paid out just over £38.1m in compensation to LCF customers, a substantial increase from the £20m paid out by August when the body increased the team allocated to the case by nearly 80%.

Protection and pension provider LV= said it expects to see a rise in income protection and critical illness claims in 2021 due to a backlog of cancer screenings.

Investment manager Walker Crips has appointed a Chartered Financial Planner to strengthen the firm’s Financial Planning-focused wealth management division.

Jacqueline Lockie CFP Chartered FCSI, the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment’s head of Financial Planning, will leave the professional body at the end of the year.