One in four UK adults, 26%, say they would feel comfortable investing up to £50,000 without speaking to a professional financial adviser.

Demand for financial advice remains strong, particularly among younger and affluent consumers, despite the rise of digital investing platforms, social media and artificial intelligence.

AI models are giving people who ask for financial advice the wrong answers most of the time, according to new research.

ISAs have been one of the most successful parts of the government’s strategy to encourage saving for several decades now so, of course, it is a perfect time to destroy them (sarcasm intended).

Profit is essential for all businesses to thrive and invest and Financial Planners, above everything else, are business people who need to make a profit. Profit is the lifeblood of all Financial Planning firms and that's something that is sometimes forgotten.

New research suggests has revealed that - for the first time - women are more likely to seek professional financial advice than men.

Financial advice remains underused at critical financial milestones across protection, mortgages and retirement, according to a new study.

One of the main talking points this week has been the FCA’s Adviser Survey which seems to point to both positive and negative factors, as far as the professional advice sector is concerned.

Many years ago a wise and very experienced CEO of a Scottish life and pensions company (sadly no longer with us) passed on to me a very useful piece of advice on pensions which we were discussing at the time.

Firms can now apply for permission to provide targeted support through the FCA’s new authorisation gateway, ahead of the new regime going live next month.

Only a fifth, 19%, of people would seek financial advice from a professional financial adviser despite less than half (46%) saying they felt financially secure.

Nearly four in five Britons (38%) put off financial tasks and potentially miss out on £440,000 in returns by failing to invest, according to a new survey of more than 2,000 UK adults including HNW individuals.

Standard Life has today launched a flat fee financial advice business specialising in pensions that it claims will, “open up the world of advice.”

Global economic uncertainty is fuelling significant growth in demand for financial advice from worried clients, according to a survey of nearly 200 UK financial advisers.

FCA CEO Nikhil Rathi has pledged to “revolutionise financial advice” as part of a package of reforms to break down the barriers to business growth in financial services.

More than one in four pension savers (28%) nearing retirement say they have seen a financial adviser or wealth manager in the past or do so currently, according to new research.

I suspect many in the regulatory community never expected to be readying to throw some of their carefully-crafted rules on a bonfire of red tape to boost business growth, but that’s exactly what they are being asked to do by the government which this week stepped up its efforts to demand regulatory reform to promote business expansion.

I’ve always believed that we should look after the wealth creators; the entrepreneurs, the business starters, the self employed, the pioneers, the creative people who spot a market opportunity, the professionals who launch new services and start-ups.

FCA bashing is something of a sport in the trade press, and we’ve certainly levelled criticism at the regulator ourselves, so it was pleasing this week to have a good reason to portray the FCA as the hero rather than the villain.

There was a welcome pledge from the FCA this week that it would strive to speed up enforcement action in future, despite the challenges. This is promising but I suspect it will be harder to achieve than they expect.