A Cambridgeshire-based Chartered Financial Planner has unveiled a new legal arm after it acquired a local firm.

The Financial Ombudsman Service has published guidance on what it expects from financial advisers who are advising on defined benefit (DB) transfers as the number of complaints mounts.

A tribunal has today upheld fines for two former investment firm executives totalling nearly £80m.

Direct lending investment manager and platform Goji has revealed it will be offering a new low-cost SIPP.

The DWP has detailed its plans today for a new occupational pension scheme - with promises that members using the Collective Defined Contribution (CDC) schemes will be ‘protected’ from excessive fees by a 0.75% charge cap.

Plans unveiled by the Ministry of Justice last night to change the way probate is charged have been branded “extortionate” and a “stealth tax.”

The Department for Work and Pensions is to consult on introducing large-scale Collective Defined Contribution (CDC) pension schemes although but it may be years before they arrive, according to one expert.

Old Mutual Wealth, part of Quilter, will now be able to consider customers looking for life cover who have both heart disease, or cerebrovascular disease such as stroke and diabetes, a combination it says the industry “typically flatly declines.”

Blick Rothenberg, which alongside its accounting and tax services has a pensions planning and advisory arm, has acquired Hazlems Fenton. 

Citizens Advice has responded to the FCA’s recent report into household insurance pricing.