A growing building society is encouraging more of its 100,000 members to access Financial Planning advice as part of a new member benefit drive.

The MD of a Financial Planning firm, who is also an up-and-coming novelist, says that writing novels has helped him to combat depression.

A survey from an industry research provider says that ethical funds should be more popular given their continued strong performance.

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, the 1,300-member pension scheme trade association, has urged the government to speed up the implementation of its planned ban on pensions cold calling.

People retiring today are having to cope with a 46% drop in their pension income compared to 10 years ago before the credit crunch too effect.

Risk profiling software provider FinaMetrica is offering young Financial Planners and Paraplanners a chance to attend the prestigious Financial Planning Institute Annual Conference in South Africa. 

A young Financial Planning trainee has said he is thrilled to have won a £2,000 prize to fund a trip to the annual conference of South Africa's Financial Planning Institute in Cape Town.

Rathbone‎s and Smith & Williamson have confirmed they are in exclusive talks which may lead to merger creating a group with £50bn under advice.

The Government is to move ahead with a raft of new measures to ban pension cold calling after a growing campaign to do more to protect consumers.

A financial adviser who spent his clients' Sipp pension investments on his own “lavish lifestyle” has been sentenced to six years in prison this week.