Barnett Waddingham has purchased Chase de Vere's Sipp and SSAS book for an undisclosed fee, it announced this morning.

A Financial Planner has become one of just six per cent to achieve a distinction in obtaining an accreditation that affirms his company's reputation for expertise in trust and estate planning.

A Treasury Committee member has questioned FCA chiefs this morning over how they expect the problem of potentially 16 million people falling through the so called advice gap to be solved.

The Financial Conduct Authority will have a huge workload ahead of it to sort out how the regulatory system will transfer to Scotland in the event of a vote for independence, its chairman says.

A report on workplace pensions has found "encouraging" results showing significantly more employees have been saving adequately for retirement since the introduction of auto-enrolment.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme is pinning its hopes of increasing consumer confidence in the industry on a celebrity led campaign, which has launched today.

Reports in the national media of a £600m takeover offer from Old Mutual for wealth management firm Quilter Cheviot have been described as "rumours" by the private equity firm, which controls it.

The chief executive of Scottish Widows has warned that the pensions industry is in danger of "breaching its capacity to cope" with the radical overhaul of the system underway.

The Pensions Advisory Service says it has seen a trebling of enquiries about pensions after the Budget reforms announced by Chancellor George Osborne in March.

A u-turn has been performed by Skandia as the firm announced it had decided to keep the Invesco Perpetual funds open to investment.