Ex-Pensions Minister and pensions campaigner Baroness Ros Altmann has praised the Government and the Pensions Regulator for emergency measures to protect auto-enrolment and workplace pensions.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has pledged that it will continue to review the cases of thousands of victims of the London Capital and Finance (LCF) £236m mini-bond collapse.

Expanding Financial Planner and IFA Ascot Lloyd has acquired Ring Associates, an East Anglian Financial Planning firm with 45 staff.

Key regulators and the government-backed advice body The Money and Pensions Service (MAPS)have today urged savers to keep calm and avoid panicky pension changes.

Andy Bell, chief executive of platform and SIPP provider AJ Bell, has welcomed news that rules on 10% ‘investment drop’ letters will be relaxed until at least 1 October.

The Personal Finance Society, the Chartered Financial Planner professional body, has backed the FCA’s decision to defer its rule obliging advisers to send ’10% drop letters’ to clients when their investments fall by 10% or more.

A Wolverhampton financial adviser has been banned for 8 years after clients lost £7m due to poor pension investment advice involving SIPPs.

The Financial Ombudsman Service will use £24.5m of its reserves to freeze its levies for the 2020/21 financial year.

Many popular equity funds fell more than 22% in March, according to analysis from an online investment provider.

Latest figures from the Investment Association reveal that investors showed little caution in February before Coronavirus concerns hit markets.