Fifteen IFP and CISI branches are set to merge next year as the transition takes place over the course of 2016.

Advisers need to quickly embrace mobile technology or face falling behind the competition as technology moves on at a rapid pace.

Defaqto has appointed a new head of insight and a new senior vice president who have held senior roles at Henderson and Legal & General.

Nearly two out of three people currently employed expect to have to work beyond 65 and 11% are anticipating they will be working beyond 76 or will never retire.

A former IFP director says he has big shoes to fill after taking up a new role with Financial Planning business the Beaufort Group.

A premier league of five to seven major providers will own about 90% of DC workplace pension scheme assets by 2020, industry experts have forecast.

Paraplanners who are fed up with anyone being able to call themselves a Paraplanner are taking matters into their hands to come up with a new professional standard.

A Financial Planning firm’s first ever apprentice has achieved a promotion only a couple of years after having to battle back to overcome cancer aged just 22.

Financial Planners are being alerted to preparations for the introduction of the Scottish Rate of Income Tax, which is set to affect nearly 3 million people.

The FCA has revealed this morning that its Enforcement Division is investigating a number of adviser firms over ‘improper delegation’ of authorised activities including providing pension switching advice.