The number of people using their full ISA allowance has increased over the last couple of tax-years, new figures suggest.

An ex-IFP President has been hired by the CISI for its new role of head of Financial Planning.

The latest ISA season failed to live up to last year, with less than half of the end of tax year subscriptions compared to 2015, figures show.

A Financial Planning firm’s headquarters have become something akin to an art gallery as part of an innovative way of engaging with clients.

Advisers will have to stump up an extra £10m to fund The Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

Wealth manager St James’s Place has bought advisory and training support company Technical Connection, the business founded and run by joint managing directors Tony Wickenden and John Woolley, for an undisclosed sum.

The FCA is weighing up further investigation into problems with insistent clients after some in the industry said a factsheet on the subject was “a waste of time and had no regulatory status”.

The FCA must “stop playing with robo-advice”, a Chartered financial Planner says.

Retirees who entered drawdown in 2015 could face "a decade of lost income" if volatile market conditions continue as they have been, a pensions firm has warned.

Financial advice business Fairstone Group is set to benefit from a £25m investment.