The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) is creating three new investment company sectors as part of a sector reshuffle.

Expanding Financial Planning firm Progeny has acquired Leeds-based legal firm Watsons Law for an undisclosed sum. 

Fund manager Neil Woodford, whose retail fund empire crumbled less than two years ago, is to stage a comeback with a new investment business.

There is little doubt that in 2018 the FCA’s call centre was in a mess. Demoralised, poorly trained staff were inundated with a barrage of calls from consumers, some of them angry and abusive, even racist and homophobic.

Redemption is a powerful force and it is likely to be the driving force behind fallen fund manager Neil Woodford’s unexpected comeback plans revealed this week.

Should Financial Planning firms insist that staff are vaccinated before returning to face to face client meetings? It’s a question that many planners will be wrangling with but one firm has taken the lead.

So was he Super Sunak, saviour of the British economy, or Tax Raider Rishi, the man who launched a tax grab we’ll be paying for well into the 2030s?

The Beatles’ famous song ‘When I’m 64’ includes the lines “Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m 64?” It’s a question many have asked but the answer, at least from a State Pension point of view, is increasingly a resounding no.

The Personal Finance Society and parent body the Chartered Insurance Institute are asking Financial Planners and Paraplanners to help review apprenticeship standards.

Financial Planning software provider Prestwood has unveiled a consumer cashflow modelling tool.