The Financial Conduct Authority has announced proposed changes to its pension rules to address the “risks and challenges faced by consumers in the new retirement market.” Read more ...

Old Mutual Wealth and Intrinsic are to launch a national Financial Planning firm with 10 offices and 250 advisers. It will be called Old Mutual Wealth Private Client Advisers. Read more ...

Standard Life is urging the Government to introduce an incentive-led pensions regime rather than one based on the current system of tax relief. Read more ...

St James’s Place Wealth Management is to expand its Academy programme to Edinburgh.

The government must invest more to educate consumers about long-term saving and investment if it wants the population to retire comfortably, the Wealth Management Association (WMA) has warned. Read more ...

Former Ascentric chairman Hugo Thorman has been appointed chairman of Altus, the financial services consultancy and software business.

Parents and grandparents who gift money to their grown-up children and grandchildren risk compromising their own standard of living by being too generous, according to a new study by Investec Wealth & Investment. Read more ...

The Association of British Insurers has revealed that around 80% of cash lump sum withdrawals were made by people who had not reached 65 years of age. Read more ...

Jason Butler, the founder of Accredited Financial Planning Firm Bloomsbury has left the business, it was revealed this morning. Read more ...

Investment risk profiling and Financial Planning systems provider Distribution Technology has recruited three senior executives from Bankhall to join the asset and risk modelling and IFA account management teams. Read more ...