New research by Sipp provider AJ Bell has revealed that the gender pay gap extends to pension freedoms.

More than one in five are saving or investing less because they cannot access advice on how to handle their money, research for Nottingham Building Society showed.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) says that evidence from a large scale study has found that awareness of the compensation scheme is leading to pension savers to choosing less risky funds.

The Government today announced that CPI inflation had fallen to 2.7% from 3%.

Growing SIPP provider Momentum Pensions has appointed a new UK managing director as it continues its UK expansion drive.

Government measures to protect members of defined benefit pension schemes have been branded a ‘damp squib’. 

Data provider Defaqto has launched a guide to multi-asset, risk-bound fund families to help advisers understand and use them for clients where appropriate.

Andrew Bailey, FCA chief executive, has attacked the ‘greed is good’ era and and called for a new culture in financial services.

A 24-year-old graduate trainee at LEBC, the Financial Planning and retirement advice firm, has won the Chartered Insurance Institute’s Young Achiever of the Year award.

Harwood Wealth, an expanding Financial Planning and discretionary wealth management group, has acquired Chartered Financial Planner firm AE Financial Services, in a deal worth more than £6 million.