Santander will soon have a 225 strong Financial Planning team and may also move into the robo-advice sector, the bank has told Financial Planning Today.

A body representing financial advisers wants more details from FCA bosses on dealing with insistent clients and how to protect professionals who transact a pension transfer against advice.

Financial advisers suffering exams fatigue may be deterred from getting involved in the secondary annuities market, the boss of a Financial Planning firm has suggested.

Nucleus has appointed a new director as it steps up preparations for imminent changes in the wrap and platform market.

Many customers newly entering drawdown to stay invested have not been using an adviser, new FCA figures showed this morning.

Tracey McDermott will not be the new chief executive of the FCA, the regulator has this afternoon confirmed.

Financial advisers should establish a charity to provide pensions advice to people with low incomes, a campaign group says.

A Financial Planning firm has brought a new Paraplanner on board and is looking at increasing its Paraplanning team to as many as eight by the end of 2016.

Nearly 3 in 10 adviser firms have an their average annual turnover of more than £1m, a study published this morning has suggested.

Aegon has launched a new free guidance service designed for its own customers who have already been to Pension Wise but have no financial adviser.