Defaqto has found that 47 per cent of Financial Planners plan to increase their qualifications from Level 4 to Level 6 by the start of RDR next year. Read more ...

Financial Planner and IFP member Martin Bamford has received a response to his FSCS funding petition from Martin Wheatley. Read more ...

There is less than a week to go for IFP members to put themselves forward to stand as a chairman for an Institute of Financial Planning branch. Read more ...

Consumer price index (CPI) inflation fell from 3.5 per cent to 3 per cent in April, according to the Office for National Statistics. Read more ...

Complaints against financial advisers accounted for just one per cent of complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service last year. Read more ...

Financial Planners wishing to attend this year’s Institute of Financial Planning annual conference have only four days left to buy early-bird discounted tickets for the event. Read more ...

One in five people have nothing saved for their retirement and less than half have saved ‘adequately’, according to Scottish Widows. Read more ...

Small firms say they will be expecting a ‘lot of help’ from advisers and pension providers ahead of auto-enrolment, according to Nest.

Financial technology company Avelo has found advisers are still unclear on adviser charging rules ahead of the RDR.

Skandia has warned advisers they could be breaching Financial Services Authority rules if they fail to use discretionary fund managers correctly.