A majority of investors want their money to do good as well as produce a positive return but over 70% don’t know how much of their money is invested ethically, according to a survey for Good Money Week which gets under way this week.

HM Revenue & Customs says it believes it is beginning to win the battle again internet crooks and fraudsters by averting over a million visits to deceptive websites over the past year.

Leaving Financial Planning too late in life remains the biggest threat to clients’ future financial security, according to the latest Aegon Adviser Attitudes Survey.

A serial fraudster who persuaded investors to hand over their life savings in a gold trading scam has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

George Kinder, leader of the Life Planning movement in Financial Planning and founder of the Kinder Institute of Life Planning, has won the Transparency Task Force’s Transparency Trophy for his long term dedication to putting consumers first in the financial advice process.

The CISI has made available a video of former IFP chief executive Nick Cann's moving speech at this year's CISI-IFP Financial Planning Conference which earned him two standing ovations from delegates.

Walker Crips, the investment and wealth management group, has promoted operations director Glenn Cooper to group chief operating officer.

The Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA), the independent body set up to improve standards in pensions administration, is to launch a voluntary mediation service to resolve issues experienced by schemes during the transfer of pension schemes from one provider to another.

A London-based private wealth firm believes that more women are set to seek financial advice due to the growing complexity of divorce settlements.

Financial investment and marketing group Investoo has bought RoboAdvisors.com, a website which allows investors to compare robo-adviser services.