About 400 Financial Planners, Paraplanners, advisers, and wealth managers are attending the Morningstar Investment Conference UK, which began this morning.

Rory Percival, the former FCA technical specialist, says practices around capacity for loss are “frankly very poor” among many firms – perhaps the majority.

Fidelity global economist Anna Stupnytska says the world economy is moving into "uncharted territory" as we experience the first year since the financial crisis of 2008 when central banks will fail to pump extra liquidity into world economies.

A leading investment platform analyst has predicted that 75% of all retail assets will be on the top four platforms by 2022 as consolidation gathers pace.

A former Financial Planner is urging the Government to reverse rule changes which he labelled “harmful to the UK’s business and enterprise sector”, as new figures showed a drop of £230m in EIS fundraising in 2015-16.

Two trustees have been banned because of a pension scheme with £16m of mainly ‘exotic’ investments that “bore the hallmarks of a scam”.

Global investment manager Invesco is buying ETF firm Source, it has been confirmed this afternoon.

A proposal for the UK to axe the state pension for richer people would fail to produce the desired outcome, a pensions expert says.

Seven Investment Management has announced its new Managed Investment Service.

Advisers have revealed who they rate as the best performing platforms.