Lancashire-based firm Acumen Financial Partnership has announced that director Jon Landy has increased his shareholding in the business to 35% and the firm has also appointed Lucy Molina as its new Financial Planning co-ordinator.

The FCA has fined a compliance oversight officer for pension transfer failings after about 500 customers with pensions worth £12.7million were advised to move from a DB to DC scheme.

The Chartered Insurance Institute is preparing the launch of a new pension transfers qualification following FCA plans to tighten the advice requirements for the transfer of safeguarded benefits.

The freedom to withdraw pension funds from 55 needs to be accompanied by flashing warning lights, a pensions firm director says, after the cut to the Money Purchase Annual Allowance was sealed.

Platform and Sipp provider AJ Bell has appointed as its new technical director a man who has previously “locked horns” with chief executive Andy Bell over technical issues.

Broadway Financial Planning’s MD Keri Carter has been handed a leading role in shaping the CISI’s Financial Planning strategy.

The CISI has revealed that its head of Financial Planning, Campbell Edgar, is to retire soon.

The winners of the first CISI Global Education Trust Awards have been flown to London for a week’s work experience.

Nearly 3,600 consumers have been compensated for wrongly being advised to switch savings into ‘risky’ assets within SIPPs – at a cost of £105m.

A landmark Supreme Court ruling on pensions for same-sex partnerships could have wider implications, with consequences running into hundreds of millions of pounds, Ros Altmann believes.