The FCA has named former Investment Association CEO Daniel Godfrey as the first chair of its new sustainable finance adviser group.

Retirement resilience has dipped and is expected to fall further during 2024 as house prices continue to fall and asset values fail to rise in line with inflation.

Almost two-thirds of Britons expect the UK to enter a recession this year, with just a fifth confident that one will be avoided.

Integrafin, the parent company of adviser platform Transact, has reported advised client numbers rose to a record 231,000 in the three months to the end of December.

The London Institute of Banking & Finance has revamped its Level 4 Diploma for Financial Advisers (DipFA) and scrapped the requirement for a final exam.

The amount of inheritance tax paid on gifts has climbed more than 153% since 2011 to £256m in the 2020-21 tax year, according to an HM Revenue & Customs response to an Freedom of Information (FOI) request.

Sussex and South East accountancy firm and Financial Planners Carpenter Box has merged its south coast operations with Jones Avens accountants.

The Chartered Insurance Institute has appointed Legal Services Board chief executive Matthew Hill as its new group chief executive, joining in April.

Scottish wealth manager and Financial Planner Aberdein Considine has appointed Ross Leckridge as a Chartered Financial Planner for the newly-created Edinburgh division of its Financial Planning team.

The over-90s population in England and Wales grew by 2.1% over 2022 to a record high of 550,835 people, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.