Inflation has leapt up to its highest level for three and a half years, reaching 2.3% in February.

James Hay has hired a new Chief Operating Officer to boost service performance and help it develop into a “fully fledged platform”.

Financial Planning-led investment management firm AFH Financial Group has built a £10million war chest in under ten hours to fund more takeovers.

The latest DFM listings for Financial Planners have been published, showcasing more than 190 discretionary propositions.

Earlier this month I travelled to Hong Kong and Singapore to engage with, and seek feedback from, some of the Personal Finance Society (PFS) and Chartered Insurance Institute’s (CII) growing number of overseas members, writes Keith Richards, PFS chief executive.

The latest issue of Financial Planning Today, our new 40-page magazine for Financial Planners and Paraplanners, is now live online to all readers.  

The number of women working after 70 has more than doubled in four years, increasing from 5.6% in 2012 to 11.3% in 2016 and getting close to the number of men working past 70.

The average stocks & shares ISA fund has grown by 15.8% during the 2016/17 tax year so far - the highest return since the 2009/10 tax year, according to Moneyfacts data.

Succession’s non-executive chairman Ray Pierce is to take over as executive chairman of the national Financial Planning business Succession Group immediately following the sudden death of 51-year-old founder and group CEO Simon Chamberlain last week.

Curtis Banks will examine possible acquisitions of good quality Sipp books this year, it said this morning, after announcing a profits boost.