EBS Pensions has reported an 18% increase in client numbers and a significant increase in profitability in 2017 under new owners the Embark Group.

Directors and staff at wealth management and Financial Planning business Investment Quorum have completed an MBO of the business.

New figures from the ONS, which point to a slowing of life expectancy increases, are good news for defined benefit pensions schemes, according to AJ Bell.

The use of the wrong platform to launch a petition against scrapping the pensions dashboard mean that the issue will not be debated in Parliament, despite surpassing 100,000 signatures. 

Quilter has appointed a new non-executive director to the board of its UK platform business Old Mutual Wealth.  

Wealth management and Financial Planning firm Tilney has appointed Andy Grant as head of Financial Planning.

Sanlam has released its half-yearly Income Study, which it described as “the definitive investor guide to UK equity income funds.”

Asset management firm GAM has suspended of an investment director following an internal investigation into risk management procedures and record keeping.

A petition against scrapping the pensions dashboard has garnered more than 100,000 signatures.

Quilter has launched a £1.5m funding programme to support young carers.