Rapidly expanding Swedish-owned wealth manager and Financial Planner Söderberg & Partners has invested in three Financial Planning firms as it continues its strategy of taking stakes in UK advisers.

Changes to the treatment of pensions under new inheritance tax rules - due to take effect from 2027 - will exacerbate delays in probate cases, wealth manager and Financial Planner Quilter has warned.

Wealth manager Brown Shipley has appointed Kate Richardson as a client adviser in London to strengthen its business across the south of the UK.

Assets under management held steady for investment manager Premier Miton at £10.7bn in the fourth quarter of 2024, despite £33m in net outflows.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is today pressing regulators to do more to boost UK growth in the face of disappointing GDP figures.

Wealth manager and Financial Planner Brooks Macdonald is planning to move its share listing from AIM to the London Stock Exchange main market, it announced today as it released a trading update.

The FCA has urged whistleblowers to help it clamp down on regulatory polluters - the firms causing some of the biggest problems and then running away from their liabilities.

Swansea West MP Torsten Bell, a former chief executive of the anti-poverty Resolution Foundation thinktank, has become the new Pensions Minister.

CPI inflation fell unexpectedly in December to 2.5% from 2.6% in November after two months of rises.

One in five - 21% - people who withdrew a cash lump sum from their pension pot did so as soon as they turned 55, many without taking advice or guidance from an expert.