The FCA has revealed financial advisers brought in total revenue of £3.7bn in 2016 from retail investment activities.

Advisers are being warned they risk letting a £1trillion opportunity slip through their fingers.

Planners will learn about showing leadership in life or death situations from a former SAS commander.

The FCA has secured eight confiscation orders totalling almost £2.2 million related to an unauthorised collective investment scheme.

An advice firm has chosen 21 year-old student Matthew Fagan to head up a scheme to train advisers in South Africa who will then serve UK clients online via video link.

Around 80,000 transfers out of defined benefit pension schemes were made in the last year, a regulator has estimated.

England’s World Cup winning rugby coach Sir Clive Woodward will headline the new Festival of Financial Planning, which has already got 1,000 delegates registered.

The Festival of Financial Planning in November will feature a “Fintech Startup Café”.

Financial advisers and planners will remain "vital" to Vanguard's future, says a senior UK executive at US fund manager Vanguard which has just launched a D2C investment service in the UK.

Asset managers are likely to be subject to a more "interventionist" approach in future, a senior executive at leading City law firm Clifford Chance has told an investment conference for Financial Planners and wealth managers today.