Financial Planners play a unique role in the lives of their clients for many years so, for clients, losing their planner due to retirement or business exit, can be a challenging and disconcerting time.

The FCA is to consult on ground-breaking proposals to launch capital-raising retail platforms to raise money for expanding firms.

The number of new equity release customers jumped by 12% to 5,240 in Q2 as the market recovered from a downturn last year, according to the Equity Release Council’s latest quarterly market report.

Fund manager Jupiter has reported pre-tax profits for the latest half year up by £3.9m to £38.7m.

Over one in three financial services firms (36%) have been penalised at least once in the past 12 months for failing to meet regulatory requirements, according to a new report.