As the owner of a small financial planning practice I have been asking myself how on earth is a small business going to cope with a looming bureaucratic red tape nightmare?

Reading the columns by Kevin O’Donnell and Martin Bamford in recent weeks got me thinking about what I would want to see and what I would want to achieve in 2017.

In the first of her new columns for Financial Planning Today, Chartered Financial Planner Nicola Watts APFS discusses the problem with recruiting Paraplanners with the right skills and experience and explains how fundamental a role she sees them playing in coming years.

Alliance Trust Savings has bolstered its intermediary sales team, with a new duo joining the company.