The FCA’s plans to make investment advisers set aside funds in advance to compensate investors if bad advice is given have been cautiously welcomed by Financial Planners.

Under-fire Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) chair Deanna Oppenheimer has unexpectedly announced today that she will step down from the role and will be replaced by Alison Platt, a former chair of L&G Financial Advice and former CEO of advice network Countrywide.

The FCA has today published proposals to compel investment advisers to set aside funds in advance to compensate investors if bad advice is given.

The FCA has launched a package of measures to improve the 'trust and transparency' of sustainable investment products and tackle 'greenwashing.'

The top open market annuity could pay £662 more a year over a typical 20-year period than the worst-paying, according to Canada Life.

Some 160,000 financial services workers need their skills upgraded according to a new report which suggests that improving workers could provide an additional £555m a year to the UK economy.

Financial Planners and advisers need to improve their approach to retirement income suitability assessments by considering clients' financial personality, such as whether they are spenders or savers.

More than 100 new Chartered and fellow members of the Personal Finance Society have celebrated their graduation at Westminster Chapel in London.

East Anglian Chartered Financial Planning firm Fairey Associates has acquired Norfolk’s £100m AUM Tailored Retirement & Investment Planning for an undisclosed sum.

The transfer value a typical DB pension could fetch fell below £150,000 in October for the first time since last year’s mini budget, according to pensions and SIPP firm XPS Group.