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Rathbone Unit Trust Management is to launch four offshore funds to provide Europe-based investors access to its funds for the first time.

Schroders has appointed a new head of EMEA marketing from BlackRock and has made an internal appointment to the new role of head of content and digital.

CISI chief executive Simon Culhane Chartered FCSI has warned that a lack of a central register to check who is an authorised adviser is damaging consumers and consumer confidence.

Royal London says new life and pensions business rose by 40% to £6.7bn in its results for the year ended 31 December 2015.

The vast majority of consumers (88%) are missing common warning signs of a pensions scam including a growing trend by scammers to offer bogus “free financial advice”, the Citizens Advice Bureau has warned.

Nearly one-in-five Defined Benefit Scheme members given access to free financial advice have transferred out of their scheme to access flexible retirement options available through a defined contribution (DC) pot, according to research by Willis Towers Watson.

Brooks Macdonald Asset Management has announced a “strategic alliance” with Castlegate Financial Management, the East Midlands-based firm of Chartered Financial Planners.

The FCA says complaints about financial services firms dipped by 1.4% in the second half of 2015 although it still topped 2.1m. It also says firms will be required to publish complaints data on their websites from next February.

Morningstar UK, the research and fund data provider, has announced the funds and fund group winners of its 2016 UK Fund Awards.