Raymond James senior relationship manager Hamish Warnock ACSI has been selected as the new chair of the CISI Wealth Management Forum committee.

The Financial Conduct Authority, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme and the Financial Ombudsman Service have warned Financial Planners to take action on any SIPP or SSAS investments in the German Property Group.

Newly-created Whitman Asset Management has appointed Araminta Le Flufy as its new chief executive, subject to FCA approval.

Adviser platform AJ Bell has urged the Government to consider giving a minister specific responsibility for tackling financial scams.

Hargreaves Lansdown has reported a surge in new clients signing up to its cash savings service following government-backed NS&I slashing its rates in September.

Wealth managers, professional associations, regulators, investment and protection providers have signed up to the Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter.

Protection provider LV= has paid more than £6m in Coronavirus-related income protection and death claims since March.

Financial services and Paraplanning support firm the Verve Group has launched an initiative to attract new talent to the Financial Planning profession.

More than 1 in 4 financial advisers (27%) taking part in a PFS straw poll said clients had reduced the amount they were saving and spending due to concerns about the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic.

A property investment company and a connected security trustee firm have been wound up by the courts after defrauding £2.85m from clients who believed their investments were protected.