Over 6,000 life, critical illness and income protection customers have received payments from protection provider Zurich in 2020, a rise of 23% on the previous year.

Wealth manager and Financial Planner Tilney Smith & Williamson has recruited Chartered Financial Planner Paul Barker to expand its focus on advice to medical professionals.

EQ Investors’ CEO John Spiers has become non-executive chair of the company he built, paving the way for the appointment of 3 long-standing colleagues to become CEOs to replace him.

The FCA has expanded its whistleblowing team as it launches a campaign to encourage more whistleblowers to report potential wrongdoing at their firms.

Financial services and SIPP group STM, the owner of the London & Colonial and Options SIPP businesses, has sold some of its Gibraltar-based businesses for just over £3m.

More than 1,000 pension savers were hit every working day in 2020 by the Money Purchase Annual Allowance (MPAA), according to new analysis.

Financial Planner and wealth manager Tavistock has criticised an unexpected and unwelcome takeover offer from a new company as undervaluing the business and providing little benefit.

The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) 12 month rate rose by 0.4% in the 12 months to February, down from 0.7% the previous month in signs that inflation remains subdued.

The 20-year difference in UK healthy life expectancy in the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) highlights the injustice of forcing people to wait longer for their state pension, according to former Pensions Minister Baroness Ros Altmann.

The Treasury has published over 30 tax updates, consultations and documents, today on what has been dubbed Tax-Day - including plans to tighten tax rules on second properties and simplify inheritance tax red tape.