NS&I has withdrawn its current 1-year and 3-year issues of its Guaranteed Growth Bonds and Guaranteed Income Bonds.

National retirement adviser LEBC has given up its DB transfer permissions following an FCA review.

Financial Planner and wealth manager Fairstone Group, which includes one of the UK’s largest Chartered Financial Planning firms, has seen total client numbers over the past year rise by 16% to 57,000.

Premier Asset Management is to merge with rival fund manager Miton in a recommended all-share deal which will create a business with £11.5bn under management.

The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment is encouraging UK Financial Planners to back its national annual consumer campaign - Financial Planning Week - which will run from 7-11 October.

Growing wealth manager and Financial Planner Kingswood has acquired Sheffield-based IFA business WFI Financial LLP for £14m.

Beaufort Financial, a national partnership of financial advisers, has expanded in Liverpool by absorbing a local advice firm with £50m under management.

Chancellor Sajid Javid has rejected a call to kill off in the near future the Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation – a figure used for the indexation of many pensions and financial products.

Cost cutting helped Mattioli Woods maintain modest profit growth over the past 12 months in the face of market challenges.

Robo-advisers were selected as the preferred investment provider by 4% of the UK's mass affluent investors, a sharp increase on the 1.3% seen in 2018.