A former investment director at Standard Life has joined Legal & General Investment Management as it expands its wealth management team.

Financial Planners are being offered the chance to outsource their human resources department to the new Bankhall Business Bureau.

The cost of taking the assessment to gain a new Paraplanning standard will start at £347.

The new name and brand has been unveiled for the company formed by the merger of Just Retirement Group and Partnership Assurance.

Advisers categorised as pensions and life intermediaries face paying an extra £36m to the FSCS next year due to rising cost of Sipps.

Sandy Leitch is to quit director roles at Old Mutual Wealth and Intrinsic - the firm he founded - it was revealed today.

The Nucleus chairman and founder of Skandia, Paul Bradshaw, has died, it was announced today.

It began as a pub chat between two friends, but now a fledgling Financial Planning group is on the verge of becoming a fully established membership body.

A Sipp firm has put itself under examination as it encourages advisers to “look beyond the headline numbers” when carrying out due diligence on providers in the sector.

Sipp providers that still accept non-standard investments will exit the market or will have to raise fees in future, a Sipp firm director has suggested.