Brown Shipley, the wealth planner and investment manager, has added a new team to its London office after a private bank acquisition.

The City of London Police and the FCA are investigating the affairs of a Hertfordshire wealth management firm and a 49-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the investigation.

Individuals will need to plan ahead better in light of new government life expectancy figures, says AJ Bell, provider of pensions, investment and stockbroker services.

HM Revenue and Customs has defeated a tax avoidance film scheme promoted by Goldcrest Pictures Ltd worth nearly £44 million.

Foreign exchange dealer Alex Hope has been charged with perverting the course of justice, the Financial Conduct Authority has said.

Four men will be sentenced later this month for their involvement in an investment scheme scam which saw more than 300 investors - many of them retired or vulnerable - ripped off for a total of £1.4m.

Blick Rothenberg, the accounting tax and advisory firm with a growing Financial Planning arm, has made its first acquisition.

Alliance Trust Savings chief executive Patrick Mill is to step down from his role at the platform after five and half years at the helm, the company announced today.

Investment provider and wealth manager Hargreaves Landsdown says that Fidelity’s radical fund management fee changes may be too complicated for investors to understand.

The FCA has begun civil proceedings in relation to “alleged misleading statements” on pension investments by a pension lead generation firm called Avacade Investment Options.