Expanding Chartered Financial Planner firm Lucas Fettes Financial Planning has acquired a fellow Chartered Financial Planner firm, Andrew Dickson of Suffolk.

The XPS Pension Transfer Watch Index for September has revealed that pension transfer activity plummeted at the same time as scam alerts surged - with 62% of pension transfers highlighted as potential scams.

Openwork, one of the biggest financial advice networks with 4,000 advisers in the UK, is launching its first Graduate Wealth Pathway trainee scheme.

Chartered Financial Planner firm Fiducia Wealth Management has been bought out by its management.

As unemployment rises economic uncertainty could give Financial Planners a golden opportunity to prove their worth, Quilter Financial Planning has told Financial Planning Today.

DFM, wealth manager and Chartered Financial Planner Brooks Macdonald has seen investment performance offset by net outflows, leaving funds under management down 1.9%, in its first quarter of their financial year.

Wealth management and Financial Planning group Charles Stanley has reported a 6.8% reduction in group revenue for the second quarter of its financial year but the Financial Planning division grew in the first half of its financial year.

Over three quarters (85%) of retired people over 50 think they retired too early, according to a new survey.

Many pension savers who think they have received regulated financial advice before accessing a pension have not, according to a new report.

Millions of public sector workers may need financial advice to guide them through their pension options as the Government decides how to respond to the McCloud judgment on age discrimination.