Chartered Financial Planning firm Fairstone signed up London-based Premier Portfolio Financial Services to its downstream buy-out programme.
Adviser network Sesame Bankhall Group has appointed Martin Schultheiss to the newly-created role of chief operating officer.
A team of enthusiastic runners from Midlands-based Financial Planning firm AFH raised more than £3,000 over the Bank Holiday weekend for a women’s hospital charity.
New analysis of 17,000 drawdown customers by a provider has revealed wide variations in the amount taken from pension pots but few signs of pensioners taking out all their cash in one go to buy a Lamborghini.
Former Pensions Minister Baroness Ros Altmann has warned the government against imposing National Insurance on pensioner workers to fund social care.
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has revised its GDP forecast to just under 1.5% due to weak economic performance in the first quarter of 2018.
Old Mutual Wealth has strengthened its specialist sales team with the appointment of Jamie Clark as pensions specialist.
Brown Shipley has appointed two new client senior managers to its Leeds office.
Royal London director of policy Steve Webb has called for an end to what he called the “absurd” way pension withdrawals are taxed.
Two financial adviser brothers, who conned 200 pensioners and vulnerable clients out of millions of pounds, have been jailed for a total of 11 years today.