A £500 pensions advice allowance for future retirees would be available to spend on robo-advice as well as a traditional adviser, the Government has revealed.

A Financial Planning firm has promoted one of its bosses to head of investment management 17 years after he began with the company on a work experience placement.

The search is on to find the Financial Planning sector’s ‘good egg’ of 2016.

Sipp firms that have found the new capital adequacy rules challenging “probably shouldn’t still be in the market”, a Suffolk Like head says.

Sipps specialist Claire Trott is leaving Talbot and Muir, the company revealed this morning.

The debate about introducing a new professional Paraplanning standard is intensifying as a leading Paraplanner has stepped forward to defend the proposal.

A financial adviser has been banned and fined £109,400 for “lying repeatedly to the regulator”.

Canada Life has this morning lifted the suspension of redemptions on the Canlife UK Property life and pension funds.

The new capital adequacy rules take effect today but Sipp experts say there are still grey areas that could be problematic.

Facebook has become increasingly popular with financial advisers over the last year, a report suggests.