Further announcements about changes to pensions, annuities and the death tax could be made this afternoon in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement.

A Buckinghamshire-based Financial Planning firm has reported that it has a number of potential new clients lined up as a result of its first Financial Planning Week surgeries.

Thomas Miller Investment has completed the acquisition of the Broadstone Wealth Management business.

Aviva has struck a deal worth about £5.6bn to take over Friends Life, creating one of the UK's largest financial providers and asset managers.

Financial Planning business Bellpenny has announced this morning that it has acquired Essex-based adviser firm Unizone.

A Reading based financial advisory firm has taken on a new head of Paraplanning.

A review of the Money Advice Service should be considering its abolition and will fail to address serious concerns by not doing so, the chairman of the Treasury Committee has told the Chancellor.

Allowing the new pensions guidance service to be delivered by people who are not regulated advisers has been labelled as akin to replacing GPs with St John's Ambulance volunteers.

The IFP has been holding talks with the FCA over its proposals to significantly boost consumer trust through better awareness and management of conflicts of interest.

Bristol-based discretionary fund manager Parmenion has announced a tie up with Weston-super-Mare based Five Ways Financial Planning.