A serial fraudster who persuaded investors to hand over their life savings in a gold trading scam has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

George Kinder, leader of the Life Planning movement in Financial Planning and founder of the Kinder Institute of Life Planning, has won the Transparency Task Force’s Transparency Trophy for his long term dedication to putting consumers first in the financial advice process.

The CISI has made available a video of former IFP chief executive Nick Cann's moving speech at this year's CISI-IFP Financial Planning Conference which earned him two standing ovations from delegates.

Walker Crips, the investment and wealth management group, has promoted operations director Glenn Cooper to group chief operating officer.

The Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA), the independent body set up to improve standards in pensions administration, is to launch a voluntary mediation service to resolve issues experienced by schemes during the transfer of pension schemes from one provider to another.

A London-based private wealth firm believes that more women are set to seek financial advice due to the growing complexity of divorce settlements.

Financial investment and marketing group Investoo has bought RoboAdvisors.com, a website which allows investors to compare robo-adviser services.

Aviva has acquired a majority shareholding in Cardiff-based robo-adviser Wealthify Group, which was set up in 2016 by a tech entrepreneur and a Chartered Wealth Manager.

One in five adults (20%) who have retired in the last five years have admitted to struggling to cope with retirement and many more are heading for a “cliff edge” post-work, according to figures from a major UK-wide survey of over 2,000 people, published today.

Platform Hubwise has halved the cost of its SIPP plan, it says, and has reduced entry costs as the company’s chief executive lambasts 'unfair' high charges he claims are prevalent in the sector.