The new financial guidance body set to replace The Money Advice Service must put consumers directly in touch with qualified advisers, a pensions firm says.

A financial advisory group has bought four firms for £10.5m, it has revealed this afternoon.

The Government has confirmed its plans to create a single consumer financial guidance body to replace the Money Advice Service, The Pensions Advisory Service and Pension Wise.

An ex-James Hay tax specialist has moved to Edinburgh based platform Nucleus.

A leading female Sipps and pensions expert says she has spoken against a Government-led initiative to promote greater ‘gender diversity’.

Women are heading for poverty in later life, a Chartered Insurance Institute report has warned.

Brewin Dolphin has bought the UK private client investment management business of Duncan Lawrie by acquiring Duncan Lawrie Asset Management Limited (DLAM).

More must be done to lift perceptions of the Financial Planning and advice profession, the PFS says, after a former Pensions Minister said the Government doesn’t understand what advisers do.

Clients are allowed to pay for advice on lump sum investments in instalments, the regulator has reiterated in a notice to advisers, following findings in FAMR.

The Pensions Regulator has reached a £255m settlement after taking anti-avoidance action against one of the world’s largest manufacturers and distributors of sewing threads.