Financial Planners and Paraplanners still have a chance to book places at the IFP Annual Conference 2014 in October.

The founder of an asset management company, set up in a back bedroom 19 years ago, says its success has gone beyond his wildest dreams after reaching the point of overseeing £385m worth of assets.

A financial advisory firm has reported an increasing number of investors have reduced their holdings of sterling as uncertainty grew over the outcome of the Scottish independence vote next Thursday.

A pensions firm's co-founder has predicted chaos if Scots vote for independence and says everyone in the financial services industry is keeping their fingers crossed that it does not happen.

A double takeover deal has been struck by AFH Financial to buy a client bank and an advisory firm, bringing its total funds under management to £840m. 

Sales of annuities have fallen by over a third between the first and second quarter of 2014, figures released this morning showed.

New statistics released this morning have shown 95% of men and women working in accommodation and food service industries had no private pension in 2010-12.

The advice gap appears to have been lifted up the list of priorities for the industry, an IFP board director says, after FCA chiefs were grilled by MPs this week.

Standard Life has revealed more about its plans to move some parts of its business away from Scotland if the referendum next week results in independence.

Tributes have been paid to a trailblazing adviser who "had a burning desire to change the image of his industry" after he passed away.