Former Personal Finance Society President Caroline Stuart has teamed up with communication professional Melissa Kidd to launch a new learning and development service focusing on people skills.

Provider Legal & General has become one of the first corporate members of the new independent professional body, the Consumer Duty Alliance (CDA).

Three-quarters of financial advisers are behind with their preparations for the FCA’s new Consumer Duty which begins in July, according to a poll.

John Moret is one of the UK's leading pensions and SIPP experts and commentators. As he enters his 75th year, still working part-time, he begins the first in a monthly series for Financial Planning Today looking back at his long career and key topics which have steered the pensions sector. He starts with a timely look at the Chancellor's pension bombshell Budget delivered only yesterday.