Former FCA specialist Rory Percival and well known Financial Planner Jason Butler are among the headline names that have been revealed for a Financial Planning conference.

An outsourced Paraplanning firm run by a PFS director could be taking on as many as 13 new recruits this year.

Chartered Financial Planning group Fairstone has snapped up two advisers from Ascot Lloyd.

Commission accounted for 26% of revenue earned by advisers in 2016, an FCA report found.

The FCA has revealed financial advisers brought in total revenue of £3.7bn in 2016 from retail investment activities.

Advisers are being warned they risk letting a £1trillion opportunity slip through their fingers.

Planners will learn about showing leadership in life or death situations from a former SAS commander.

The FCA has secured eight confiscation orders totalling almost £2.2 million related to an unauthorised collective investment scheme.

An advice firm has chosen 21 year-old student Matthew Fagan to head up a scheme to train advisers in South Africa who will then serve UK clients online via video link.

Around 80,000 transfers out of defined benefit pension schemes were made in the last year, a regulator has estimated.