The Association of Member-Directed Pension Schemes (AMPS), the industry body representing SIPP operators and SSAS practitioners, has today revealed Claire Trott of St James’s Place Group has been appointed as its new chairman.

Rathbones chief executive Philip Howell is set to retire early next year.

Financial Planners were recognised alongside the best and brightest of the personal finance profession at this year’s PFS awards.

Platform and SIPP operator AJ Bell is set to be valued at between £626m and £675m when it floats on the stock market in December, the company predicts.

National financial adviser LEBC Group has hit out at the Government over plans to change the way Probate is calculated.

A new international investment data firm has been created after FE joined forces with fundinfo, a provider of services for asset managers and distributors in Europe and Asia, and F2C, the Luxembourg-based business which runs fund data management platform, publiFund.

The CII has corrected a number of errors on its website which were branded “very worrying.” 

Over-50s feel they would need a £500k windfall to make financial advice worthwhile, according to new research.

Justin King, a Chartered Financial Planner and SOLLA member, has launched a weekly ‘Retirement Cafe’ Podcast to help consumers get ready for life after work.

Nearly 1,500 Financial Planners, Paraplanners and advisers have attended the two PFS ‘Forces’ Financial Planning Symposiums which end in London today.