A new outsourced Paraplanning company has launched with the aim of “making advisers’ lives easier”.

The future of the Paraplanners Powwow has been secured, with a package of new initiatives announced for 2017.

The Paraplanners Powwow has inspired a pensions firm to create a new online Paraplanning hub designed to help them access all of the information they need quickly and easily.

A PFS board director says she has mixed views over introducing a professional standard for Paraplanners but believes the UK profession appears “far ahead” of their US and Australian counterparts.

An FCA expert who dismissed claims that due diligence is too time-consuming and too cost-prohibitive for small firms will take over from technical specialist Rory Percival.

The debate about introducing a new professional Paraplanning standard has recently intensified.

A Financial Planning firm specialising in advice for medics and dentists has taken on three new Paraplanner apprentices.

Paraplanners are predicting more takeover deals in the platforms sector, following the recent sale of Cofunds by L&G to Aegon for £140m.

The founder of a Paraplanning firm says it has become ‘virtually impossible’ to recruit experienced and qualified Paraplanners.

An FCA specialist has labelled some compliance officers ‘not very good’ and says they have “too much of a tick-box, back-covering approach”.