Citywide Financial Partners based in Fetcham, Surrey, has become a CISI Accredited Financial Planning Firm^TM, after passing rigorous selection criteria.

After several years of decline, the number of UK financial advisers stabilised in 2015 and there are signs there may have been a small increase, according to a report by trade body APFA, the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA).

Harwood Wealth, the expanding Financial Planning and discretionary wealth management group which has acquired a number of adviser firms, has begun trading on AIM today.

Tilney Bestinvest has appointed Alan Edwards as its new head of investment management for England. 

A survey of users by adviser technology company Intelliflo has found that half would welcome the UK leaving the EU with nearly two thirds (62%) saying it would have a positive or neutral impact on the long term future of the UK.

Sales of annuities have unexpectedly picked up in recent months, according to the ABI in a report published one year after the introduction of the Pension Freedoms.

NS&I is reducing the interest rates on five of its variable rate products and will also also be changing the fixed interest component offered to Index-linked Savings Certificates customers whose investments are maturing.

More than four in ten (44%) Scottish savers squirrel away more now than two years ago, compared to a national average of 41% but one in five (21%) are saving only for the short term, while just 16% are focusing on the longer-term future.

MPS on the Work and Pensions Commitee are to re-open their inquiry into auto-enrolment to assess the impact the Lifetime ISA (LISA) announced in the Budget will have on auto-enrolment. Read more ...

Seven in 10 investment ISA portfolio are in sectors with top risk ratings of Five to Seven – even though research shows only 9% of UK adults rate their appetites for risk as being this high. Read more ...