Adviser network Openwork has strengthened its ambition to grow its UK financial advice proposition with the appointment of a new a head of recruitment and development.

Acquisitive national IFA firm AFH has made its first takeover of 2019 with the acquisition of Stourbridge-based Hayburn Rock Financial Planning in a £3.5m deal.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has revealed it has so far paid out £1.1m to former Active Wealth clients hit by the British Steel pensions debacle.

Brooks Macdonald expects to make 50 redundancies as part of a ‘streamlining’ of the business.

A new book on personal finance by Chartered Financial Planner Jason Butler was published today.

Walker Crips, which has a Financial Planning arm, has rebranded its private client stockbroking and investment management business to Walker Crips Investment Management Limited.

The Treasury has clarified that the long-awaited pensions cold calling ban - which came into effect yesterday - specifically applies only to voice calls.

Pension transfer values as measured by the XPS Pensions Group Transfer Value Index remained high during 2018, remaining relatively stable throughout the year until a more volatile December. 

Wealth planner Brown Shipley has appointed Richard McGregor as national head of Court of Protection & personal injury, a newly created role. 

An accounts manager lied to investigators to try to hide the fact that restaurants had not given their staff workplace pensions.