The Financial Ombudsman Service has ruled in favour of a client who complained over advice to transfer the value of his protected rights into a new Sipp.

A Chartered Financial Planning group has bought a wealth firm specialising in estate planning with 1,500 clients.

The FCA has found a “high level of inaccuracies” in PII policies for insurance advisers, especially on the scope of cover for FOS awards.

A pensions expert has called for urgent action to help the self-employed as figures showed a significant decline in saving over the past decade.

A new DFM due diligence update event for Financial Planners and Paraplanners will take place in London tomorrow.

The number of people saving into workplace pensions has increased by 4.4 million since 2012, new figures showed.

Certified Financial Planners must undertake one hour extra of ethics CPD from April.

A Chartered Financial Planner who built his own cashflow modelling software, which now has 4,000 users, says cashflow modelling is not essential to Financial Planning.

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers has called for the FCA to act swiftly to strengthen rules on unregulated investments.

A firm selling ‘alternative investment’ products, including ‘fancy coloured’ diamonds, to investors including a number of vulnerable people such as a dementia sufferer, has been ordered into liquidation.