Our story this week about the Treasury’s record IHT tax grab in the past year is a worrying portent of things to come, I fear.

IFA network Bankhall has launched a new series of business development workshops for advisers at six venues across the UK. 

A financial adviser is gearing up for a gruelling charity trek which will see him walking from John O’Groats to Lands’ End and scaling the three highest peaks for charity.

Sanlam UK, part of the international financial services group Sanlam Limited, has announced the acquisition of Thesis Asset Management Limited.

A fraudster has been jailed for seven years for conning elderly and vulnerable victims out of nearly £3m in a ‘boiler room’ fraud operation which promoted bogus corporate bond investments.

Families could be paying an avoidable tax bill of more than £80,000 because parents are too embarrassed to talk to their children about their financial future, according to new research.

Wealth manager and Financial Planner Brewin Dolphin has acquired bath-based planner Epoch Wealth Management.

Connect, HMRC’s sophisticated information system is being used more and more to identify income and gains that have not been declared.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) will impose a levy of £532m on firms this year, £16m more than it forecast in January but £42m lower than the equivalent figure last year.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has reiterated today that its door is closed to claims against the £236m collapsed mini-bond firm London Capital & Finance - but it could review its stance.