Financial Planner and IFP member Martin Bamford has received a response to his FSCS funding petition from Martin Wheatley.

There is less than a week to go for IFP members to put themselves forward to stand as a chairman for an Institute of Financial Planning branch.

Consumer price index (CPI) inflation fell from 3.5 per cent to 3 per cent in April, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Complaints against financial advisers accounted for just one per cent of complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service last year.

Financial Planners wishing to attend this year’s Institute of Financial Planning annual conference have only four days left to buy early-bird discounted tickets for the event.

One in five people have nothing saved for their retirement and less than half have saved ‘adequately’, according to Scottish Widows.

Small firms say they will be expecting a ‘lot of help’ from advisers and pension providers ahead of auto-enrolment, according to Nest.

Financial technology company Avelo has found advisers are still unclear on adviser charging rules ahead of the RDR.

Skandia has warned advisers they could be breaching Financial Services Authority rules if they fail to use discretionary fund managers correctly.

The Bank of England has admitted that inflation is unlikely to fall as quickly as it had previously hoped, according to its latest Inflation Report.