The Chartered Insurance Institute is to provide free digital study texts to personal finance students concerned they may be unable to sit their assessments before the end of August due to the Coronavirus outbreak.

The Pensions Regulator has given employers more flexibility today with their auto-enrolment pension contributions but also reminded them of their obligations. 

Momentum Pensions, a UK and international SIPP and pension provider, has accelerated the introduction of electronic signatures for pension and investment forms to help advisers and clients during the Coronavirus outbreak.

SIPP pioneer Geoffrey Pointon has died at the age of 82 from Coronavirus, according to reports in his local newspaper the Rutland and Stamford Mercury.

Financial Planning fintech firm Dynamic Planner has launched a ‘content hub’ to help planners adapting to the impact of Coronavirus.

Apricity Compliance is offering 90-days free access to new users to enable them to adapt to working remotely.

Defined benefit transfer values slumped by 3% in March and the number of members asking for a transfer value fell to a record low, according to figures released by the XPS Transfer Watch today.

The Personal Finance Society says 3 in 10 of the 468 graduates due to take part this week in its now cancelled graduation ceremony are female - nearly twice the financial services average.

Fund manager GAM is accelerating its cost-cutting programme in the face of a major drop in assets under management.