The new name and brand has been unveiled for the company formed by the merger of Just Retirement Group and Partnership Assurance.

Advisers categorised as pensions and life intermediaries face paying an extra £36m to the FSCS next year due to rising cost of Sipps.

Sandy Leitch is to quit director roles at Old Mutual Wealth and Intrinsic - the firm he founded - it was revealed today.

The Nucleus chairman and founder of Skandia, Paul Bradshaw, has died, it was announced today.

It began as a pub chat between two friends, but now a fledgling Financial Planning group is on the verge of becoming a fully established membership body.

A Sipp firm has put itself under examination as it encourages advisers to “look beyond the headline numbers” when carrying out due diligence on providers in the sector.

Sipp providers that still accept non-standard investments will exit the market or will have to raise fees in future, a Sipp firm director has suggested.

Financial Planners are to get online access to information about their clients’ NS&I holdings as part of a web services upgrade.

Considerable interest is being shown in transferring UK pensions into overseas schemes, two advisory firms have told Financial Planning Today.

A former financial adviser has been jailed for eight and a half years over investment fraud totalling more than £6 million.