Annuity rates have climbed again meaning a 65-year-old with a £100,000 pension pot should be able to buy an annuity income of up to £7,144 per year, up from £7,027 two weeks ago and an increase of 20% on the same period last year.

Wealth manager and Financial Planner Evelyn Partners has appointed former international rugby player Craig Dowsett as a Financial Planning director at its London office.

Nearly 1 in 2 women over 50 say running out of money during retirement is one of their biggest financial concerns, compared to only 1 in 3 men of the same age.

National IFA Continuum has expanded its team in Wiltshire with the hiring of Chartered Financial Planner Stephen Hall.

Recruitment firm BWD has launched a mergers and acquisitions service - BWD M&A - aimed at finance advice businesses.

Wealth manager and platform Quilter says the ‘stronger nudge’ towards pensions guidance, introduced a year ago, has so far produced “lacklustre” results and needs to be beefed up.

Odey Asset Management is to be effectively partially dismantled and its funds and staff moved to other managers following concerns about the company over a reported FCA investigation.

Legal & General group has appointed António Simões as its new group CEO to replace Sir Nigel Wilson who is retiring.

Aberdeenshire-based Acumen Financial Planning has expanded in West Scotland with a new office in Glasgow.

The Treasury Committee, the influential Commons committee of MPs, has written to FCA chief executive Nikhil Rathi to raise questions on the regulator’s reported investigation into Odey Asset Management.