A protection study by Aviva has uncovered that nearly one in three (31%) UK adults have had to take leave from work due to ill health, a cancer diagnosis or death in the family and 77% of these people (12.3m consumers) have seen their finances hit as a consequence.

Parmenion, the adviser platform and investment service, has told users that there will be no change to the way it operates despite the merger this week between its parent company Aberdeen Asset Management and Standard Life.

Financial tech provider Iress is to launch what is calls “next-generation digital tools” through its XPLAN service from early 2018.

Despite a bumpy ride for the FTSE 100 recently, more than one in four financial advisers believes that UK equities will generate the best returns for their clients over a three to five year period, according to new research.

A financial adviser who spent his clients' Sipp pension investments on his own “lavish lifestyle” has been sentenced to six years in prison this week.

The Government is to move ahead with a raft of new measures to ban pension cold calling after a growing campaign to do more to protect consumers.

Rathbone‎s and Smith & Williamson have confirmed they are in exclusive talks which may lead to merger creating a group with £50bn under advice.

Risk profiling software provider FinaMetrica is offering young Financial Planners and Paraplanners a chance to attend the prestigious Financial Planning Institute Annual Conference in South Africa. 

People retiring today are having to cope with a 46% drop in their pension income compared to 10 years ago before the credit crunch too effect.

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, the 1,300-member pension scheme trade association, has urged the government to speed up the implementation of its planned ban on pensions cold calling.