National Financial Planning and wealth management firm Succession Group has promoted James Stevenson to the position of  group chief executive.

The Department for Work Pensions has confirmed it will legislate to give millions of younger workers a better retirement through auto-enrolment pension savings.

Old Mutual Wealth has agreed to sell its Single Strategy investment business to TA Associates, a private equity firm, for £600m.

The parent company of Utmost Wealth Solutions - Life Company Consolidation Group - is to create a specialist wealth management firm as part of its acquisition of Generali PanEurope (GPE).

The FCA has welcomed the European regulator’s decision to potentially intervene in the binary options market which has seen a large number of scams hitting UK investors.

Staff at Leeds-based Financial Planning firm Manse Capital have taken part in a sponsored Christmas jumper day to raise money for charity.

Leading Financial Planner Martin Bamford has announced that he will give up his membership of the CISI as he is “just not getting any value anymore,” he announced on Twitter.

Frank Field MP, chair of the Commons Work and Pensions Committee, has written to the FCA over concerns that its response to the British Steel pensions controversy has been “grossly inadequate.|

Platform and SIPP provider AJ Bell saw pre-tax profit tax increase by 29% to £21.7 million for 2017 as the company’s growth strategy in recent years paid dividends.

Savers can now fund film projects with their ISA with the FYZZ, an Innovative Finance ISA specialising in funding film and entertainment ventures.