Close Brothers Asset Management has appointed James Ballinger FPFS as practice director of its London advice team.

New research has revealed that professional financial advice boosts consumers’ emotional wellbeing – especially in times of crisis - and ongoing relationships with advisers provide the most benefit.

PIMFA has launched The ESG Academy, an online training platform for Financial Planners who want to learn more about ESG investing.

UK unemployment continued to rise in the three months to July, with those aged between 16 and 24 seeing the biggest drop in employment, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Today is Pensions Awareness Day, but nearly three in four UK adults have little or no knowledge about pensions, rising to 83% for women compared to 61% for men, according to new research.

One in four workers in the UK have changed their pension plans due to the Coronavirus pandemic, according to new research released on Pensions Awareness Day.

Profits have risen 56% at adviser support company SimplyBiz, as an improvement in underlying earnings from the first six full months of trading following the Defaqto acquisition helped offset a significant reduction in valuation income.

Aegon has called on the FCA to make sure that their Consumer Investment Market review does not to burden financial advice firms with increasing FSCS levies or professional indemnity premiums.

The High Court has found in favour of the arguments advanced for policyholders by the FCA on the majority of the key issues in its business interruption insurance test case.

The Court of Appeal has backed the High Court judgement which rejected claims that an increase in State Pension Age affecting women born in the 1950s was discriminatory.