The Association of Professional Financial Advisers has called for the FCA to act swiftly to strengthen rules on unregulated investments.

A firm selling ‘alternative investment’ products, including ‘fancy coloured’ diamonds, to investors including a number of vulnerable people such as a dementia sufferer, has been ordered into liquidation.

Financial Planning firms are to be offered up to £9,600 if they take on an adviser apprentice.

An adviser is set to be banned and fined over his firm’s advice to 1,661 customers on making £112million of alternative investments.

Advisers have been warned this morning they face an extra FSCS levy next year as a result of rapidly growing claims related to Sipps.

Bellpenny’s acting head of Financial Planning has left to join a national firm of financial advisers.

ISA interest rates are as low as 0.05% among 32 mainstream providers, a probe has shown, as new rules come into force today.

The average age of mums and dads in England and Wales has risen by almost 4 years over the last 4 decades, according to new analysis.

Cashflow modelling has been included among the key competencies required of trainee advisers entering a new national Government apprenticeship scheme.

DB transfers and critical yields are set to be one of the hot topics in Paraplanning for 2017.