Essex IFA firm EB Securities Limited (FRN 478541) has been declared in default today (14 August) by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

A new report about pensions and housing wealth thinking, or lack of it, has got me considering how we plan for later life financial challenges and the importance of fully comprehensive holistic Financial Planning.

The former CEO of fund manager Blue Horizon Asset Management (BHAM), Paul Taylor, has been fined £489,000 and banned by the FCA from working in financial services after he made attempts to buy a bank and a football club using false statements.

Wealth manager St James’s Place (SJP) says four experienced Financial Planners have joined the firm as Appointed Representatives (ARs), adding their partner practices to the network. 

The Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has called for the modernisation of the way pension assets are treated on the breakdown of marriages and cohabiting relationships.

Financial Planning firms have seen the number of clients they are advising hold relatively steady this year, according to our recently published 2026 annual survey of Financial Planning Today readers.

Norwich Financial Planning firm Signpost Financial Planning Ltd (FRN: 575237) has been declared in default by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

Private equity firm WestBridge has taken a majority investment for an undisclosed sum in East of England-based Financial Planning firm Beckett Investment Management Group.

Fintel Services, whose parent owns Simplybiz and Threesixty, is launching a new proposition to connect suitable buyers and sellers as part of an initiative to help Financial Planners and advisers retiring or looking to exit their business.

UK private market fund managers believe SIPPs will play a major role in expanding sophisticated and high-net-worth investor participation in private markets over the next five years, according to new research.