Inflation has jumped to the highest level in nearly two years.

The second issue of Financial Planning Today magazine, the sister digital publication to this website, has been published and is available for free download to Financial Planners, Wealth Managers and Paraplanners.

The creation of platform hosted managed portfolio service solutions has exceeded launches with discretionary manager custody over the last five years.

A former HSBC private client adviser has been snapped up by Financial Planning firm Towry.

Chartered Financial Planning business Fairstone Group has bought an IFA firm in West London.

NHS doctors, dentists, and teachers are being pushed into early retirement by lifetime allowance changes, Financial Planning firms have reported.

An FCA expert who dismissed claims that due diligence is too time-consuming and too cost-prohibitive for small firms will take over from technical specialist Rory Percival.

A Financial Planning firm has been taken over as part of plans to create a £50m business with 50 advisers within the next ten years.

The new Lifetime ISA is set to cost the Government £830m by the 2020-21 financial year.

A Financial Planning firm’s MD claims ex-Chancellor George Osborne was “possessed with an inner-Gordon Brown” and called for pension complexities to be scrapped by his successor.