An IFA firm has hosted a regional Financial Planning event to bring “leading financial minds” together to help businesses and individuals.

Three Financial Planners and a senior university lecturer have joined forces to pen a personal finance book for students and young people.

Former Chancellor George Osborne is the shock successor as editor of the Evening Standard, it emerged this morning.

The Office for National Statistics has released details of suicides by occupation, showing that 52 people describing themselves as finance and investment analysts and advisers took their own lives between 2011 and 2015.

Simon Chamberlain, the chief executive of Succession Group, has died aged 51.

Financial Planning-led investment management firm AFH Financial Group has set out plans to raise up to £10million to fund more takeovers.

The Chancellor has come under fire again today over another of his Budget proposals, as critics attack his “wholly ill-conceived and utterly misguided thinking on QROPS”.

More than 1.7million over 55s could miss out on the upcoming increased nil-rate inheritance tax band, a report has warned.

Chartered Financial Planning Group Fairstone has acquired another three firms and added 19 advisers.

Pensions experts have condemned the Government’s decision to take the “easier route, not the right one” by forging ahead with the MPAA cut.