A Chartered Financial Planner who specialises in advising professional sportsmen has been made a partner at his firm.

A Financial Planner says the sector must discover how to help people beat the “fear of seeking advice”.

Advisers will determine whether Aegon’s £140m takeover of Cofunds succeeds or fails, Aegon’s CEO has suggested.

The future for annuities looks ‘very gloomy’, with recent events having a ‘devastating’ impact, a Financial Planner says.

A Financial Planner has described how he dealt with clients whose filing system was “basically a series of plastic tubs”.

A CISI Fellow has left Charles Stanley to take on a new job as investment director with Brooks Macdonald.

Advisers have been told they are missing out on ways to attract new clients by failing to get involved in sponsorship.

About 500 clients lost £128million because of pension liberation firms that have been wound up.

Investor confidence has rebounded from the Brexit blues, according to Hargreaves Lansdown, with a 19% jump having been recorded.

Nearly four in ten Financial Planning professionals could be entering the robo-adviser market in the next 12 months, Financial Planning Today’s research suggests.