Fast growing Financial Planning-focused wealth manager AFH has acquired Herts-based AE Garment Independent Financial Services Limited in a £1.7m deal.

Almost three-quarters of UK investors admit that political uncertainty and volatile markets have impacted their investment decision-making, Schroders Global Investor Study 2019 has found.

Proposals to reduce the number of poorly governed pension schemes have been outlined in a consultation launched by The Pensions Regulator (TPR) today.

Financial Planning app Multiply has gained FCA approval and claims to be the first such UK service to get the green light from the regulator. 

Investors hit by the collapse of £236m London Capital & Finance (LCF) earlier this year have launched a petition aimed at the Treasury, the FCA, Nicky Morgan MP and Antony Townsend the Complaints Commissioner.

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has made changes to the the application and renewal process for corporate Chartered status.

Woodford has extended the suspension of its LF Woodford Equity Income Fund (a sub-fund of LF Woodford Investment Fund) for at least another 28 days as the company grapples to avoid disaster.

Brown Shipley has made a new directorial appointment at its London office.

A Cambridgeshire-based Financial Planning firm is to sponsor an event headlined by Ronan Keating.

1825, Standard Life’s wholly owned Financial Planning and advice business, has revealed that it will acquire the wealth advisory unit of Grant Thornton UK LLP.