The reversal of April’s 1.25% increase in National Insurance rates for employees and employers took effect from Sunday 6 November.

Acquisitive Financial Planning group Perspective has completed its tenth acquisition of the year with the purchase of Goldwyns Wealth Management in Southend-on-Sea, Essex for an undisclosed sum.

Wealth manager and Financial Planner Evelyn Partners, formerly Tilney Smith & Williamson, has reported a sharp rise in group operating income in the third quarter due to strong new business inflows.

Investors pulled out £7.6 billion from funds in September, the eighth month of net retail outflows this year.

The FCA intervened on a record 4,151 financial promotions between July and September this year, the highest quarterly number since it started publishing the data.

Nearly eight out of 10 clients (79%) of a leading Chartered Financial Planner firm say that taking advice from a Chartered Planner is “essential” to their financial decision-making.

Seven financial providers have paid £12m in compensation to nearly 60,000 customers after the FCA intervened over the treatment of hard-pressed borrowers.

Acquisitive Financial Planning and wealth management firm Kingswood has acquired Lincoln-based Chartered Financial Planner JCH Investment Management for £3.5m. 

Leeds-based The Private Office has scooped the Personal Finance Society’s Chartered Financial Planning Firm of the Year.

People dipping into their pensions for the first time are triggering complex tax rules, according to analysis by retirement specialist Just Group.