1825, Standard Life’s wholly-owned Financial Planning business, is to acquire Munro Partnership Limited in Scotland as part of a plan to expand its Scottish financial planning interests.

UK portfolios are the most cautiously positioned in Europe with investors fleeing riskier assets for the relative safety of cash to shelter from turbulent global markets, according to a worldwide survey. Read more ...

TISA, the financial services association, has confirmed plans to help the industry meet the challenge set out in the Financial Advice Market Review final report and in the Budget to make the pensions dashboard a reality.

Pershing, a BNY Mellon company, is to provide full UK wrap administration and execution capabilities to Saga Investment Services, the new joint venture from Tilney Bestinvest and over-50s provider Saga.

Tavistock Investments, the acquisitve advisory firm consolidator, is to buy Abacus Associates Financial Services Limited for just under £5.2m, pushing up the number of Tavistock advisers to more than 300. 

An exit fee penalty on the new Lifetime ISA carries “a huge sense of irony”, a pensions firm boss says.

The CISI has raised concerns that the FCA could be sending “mixed messages that may devalue qualifications” if recommendations from the FAMR are implemented.

As the dust settles on the latest Budget and the analysts pore over the detail contained in George Osborne’s red briefcase, analysts have given their reaction to Financial Planning Today.

New pension investments were up by 110.4% in 2015, rising to £13.6 billion from £6.5 billion in 2014, according to new figures.

The Bank of England's Money Policy Committee voted unanimously to keep its Bank Rate unchanged today at half a per cent - meaning the record rate of stability has reached a seven year milestone.