Baroness Helena Morrissey, the chairman-elect of AJ Bell, has been criticised in the national press for saying on her social media that the UK is not currently in the midst of a pandemic.

Almost a third (30%) of financial advisers expect the age at which clients first engage with a Financial Planning professional to decrease over the next five years, according to new research.

Almost one in ten investors (9%) said that the source of information they have turned to most to help decide on their investments is social media, with 7% now regarding it as their most important source of information.

The FCA has said big tech firms like Google can do more to protect consumers in areas on the edge of the FCA's regulatory perimeter in its second annual perimeter report.