Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ raft of financial services reforms announced in her Mansion House speech last week have provoked a range of reactions from the financial services sector.

The Government is reviving the Pensions Commission to look at ways to tackle the problem of people not saving for their retirement.

The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) has launched a new initiative this week to campaign to turn the UK’s pension capital into a "powerful engine of sustainable growth" 

I attended the launch in central London this week of the Personal Finance Society’s £1m drive to find new blood for the profession and tackle the worrying long-term decline in new entrants. It was a sobering morning.

Back in 2002 Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence, coined a phrase which has been repeated a million times since but I’m increasingly wondering whether it could be applied to UK pensions and ultimately financial advice (or rather lack of it).

I don’t think I was the only one a little surprised by the Chancellor’s decision this week to order a significant review of at least part of the Consumer Duty, which was only fully introduced in 2023.

Convicted insider dealer Redinel Korfuzi, 38, a former analyst at asset manager Janus Henderson, earned a “remarkable” pay package of nearly £600,000 in one year, court documents have revealed.

A new study has found that 35% of financial advisers are using smoothed funds for new client money despite concerns about their cost and transparency.

The global number of Certified Financial Planners has risen by 3.1% over the past year to 230,648, up 6,878 on the previous year, according to the newly-published 2024 Annual Report of the Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB), the global standards setting body for CFP Professionals.

Two individuals have been arrested on suspicion of money laundering and running an illegal cryptoasset exchange.