The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today published its final guidance on its expectations for firms on the fair treatment of vulnerable customers.

Financial Planning firm Lifetime Financial has set a policy that all its Financial Planners should be vaccinated before they return to wide scale face-to-face client meetings.

Financial Planning-focused adviser firm AFH Financial faces opposition from its largest shareholder, Slater Investments, to private equity firm Flexpoint Ford’s £224.5m cash takeover of the group.

Real pay growth hit its highest level since 2001 in December, raising concerns about future inflation.

Standard Life Aberdeen has confirmed that it is to sell the Standard Life brand to the Phoenix Group.

Adviser network Openwork, one of the UK’s largest, has rebranded as the Openwork Partnership from today.

SIPP provider Dentons Pensions has acquired MAB Pensions, a provider of small self administered schemes (SSASs), from Michael Ambrose Group (MAB), a Leicester-based financial adviser and pension administrator.

The FCA has imposed a number of restrictions on a car investment scheme provider and ordered it to halt regulated activities because of concern about its finances.

Bestinvest has reported a 33% rise in the number of poorly performing ‘dog’ funds over the past year with some major names faring badly, according to its latest ‘Spot The Dog’ fund report.

The latest issue of Financial Planning Today magazine unravels the pros and cons of trying to sell a Financial Planning firm during the pandemic.