The Personal Finance Society and parent body the Chartered Insurance Institute are asking Financial Planners and Paraplanners to help review apprenticeship standards.

There is little doubt that in 2018 the FCA’s call centre was in a mess. Demoralised, poorly trained staff were inundated with a barrage of calls from consumers, some of them angry and abusive, even racist and homophobic.

Fund manager Neil Woodford, whose retail fund empire crumbled less than two years ago, is to stage a comeback with a new investment business.

Expanding Financial Planning firm Progeny has acquired Leeds-based legal firm Watsons Law for an undisclosed sum. 

The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) is creating three new investment company sectors as part of a sector reshuffle.

More than 350 financial advisers have pledged to adopt the Financial Vulnerability Taskforce Charter in its first two weeks since launch.

A former Schroders worker has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for his role in a three man gang which was caught in connection with the supply of £6m worth of cocaine.

RSMR is dropping VAT from the 0.15% annual management charge on its Managed Portfolio Service (MPS).

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.

Yorkshire-based Chartered Financial Planner Belmayne has added to its Financial Planning team and said it is looking for more planners to join the firm.