A North West-based Chartered Financial Planner and IFA firm has revealed plans to double its staff as it celebrates its 15th anniversary.

The FCA has today revealed new measures it will take to protect consumers and sets out when and how the organisation will take action. 

Reports that Pensions Secretary Esther McVey was planning to kill off the proposed pensions dashboard were branded “a huge let down to millions of savers.”

Arbuthnot Banking Group, which owns Chartered Financial Planner Arbuthnot Latham, has boosted half-year profits by £1m.

Four students described as “exceptional” from the Asia Pacific region and Africa have achieved London work placements in the CISI GET Awards.

Friends and family of popular Paraplanner Gary Tunstall FPFS CFP, who died nearly a year ago of cancer at the age of 41, have raised thousands of pounds in his memory as the first anniversary of his death nears.

The global expatriate population has reached 66.2m and is likely to rise to 87.5 million by 2021, according to an industry report from consultants Finaccord.

Royal London Asset Management plans to launch a monthly income bond fund later this year aimed mainly at IFAs’ clients and wealth managers.

Pension transfer values - as measured by the XPS Pensions Group Transfer Value Index - fluctuated “mildly” during June 2018 with a small fall during the month, says the firm. 

A number of platform providers have given a broad welcome to today’s publication of the FCA’s interim market study into investment platforms which calls for a shake-up of the sector to improve competition.