Allowing the new pensions guidance service to be delivered by people who are not regulated advisers has been labelled as akin to replacing GPs with St John's Ambulance volunteers.

A review of the Money Advice Service should be considering its abolition and will fail to address serious concerns by not doing so, the chairman of the Treasury Committee has told the Chancellor.

A Reading based financial advisory firm has taken on a new head of Paraplanning.

Financial Planning business Bellpenny has announced this morning that it has acquired Essex-based adviser firm Unizone.

Aviva has struck a deal worth about £5.6bn to take over Friends Life, creating one of the UK's largest financial providers and asset managers.

Thomas Miller Investment has completed the acquisition of the Broadstone Wealth Management business.

A Buckinghamshire-based Financial Planning firm has reported that it has a number of potential new clients lined up as a result of its first Financial Planning Week surgeries.

Further announcements about changes to pensions, annuities and the death tax could be made this afternoon in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement.

George Osborne has begun delivering the Autumn statement this afternoon, telling Parliament that Britain has become the fastest growing advanced economy in the world.

A Bury based financial advisory firm has invested £300,000 in a move to bigger headquarters as it looks to double its staff numbers.