When I first became a Financial Planner in 2002, professional development was fairly straightforward. I would pick the most interesting sounding product provider seminars, turn up at a couple of these each month, and that would be enough to satisfy my continuing professional development needs. How things have changed.

About a third of advisers are anxious about the impact of the snap election and the result, as they say this is causing uncertainty and disruption for their business, a report found.

Financial Planning firms have reported being ‘inundated’ with a ‘whole spectrum’ of different potential clients during Financial Planning Week which ran throughout last week.

Five years ago today, I launched an online petition calling for fairer funding of the FSCS.