Investor confidence is back on the up as economists and investors predict that the worst of the inflationary period is behind us, according to the latest HL Investor Confidence Index.

The number of persistently underperforming funds has increased by more than a quarter in the last six months to 56, according to Bestinvest’s latest Spot the Dog report, with St James's Place dominating the list of big funds.

The Pension Awareness campaign will mark its first decade with a five-day event from 11 to 15 September.

South Wales Advice firm The Financial Planning Practice (FRN: 223388) has failed, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme said.

Origo chief executive Anthony Rafferty has urged Financial Planners and other industry professionals to tell the fintech about their problems so the business can work on ways to help.

Former Pensions Minister Baroness Altmann has called on policymakers to look at other ways to solve rising state pension costs than raising the starting age, cutting the amount or more means-testing.

Investment and advice firm Close Brothers Asset Management has added Paul Smith as Chartered Financial Planner based in its Manchester office.

The Pensions Regulator has amended its DB superfunds guidance three years after publishing its original guidance to update it based on changes in the last three years.

The UK economy surprised economists by growing by 0.2% in the second quarter of the year and showed a much better than expected performance in June.

Nationwide Building Society will transfer its Financial Planning service to Aegon UK in a new extended strategic partnership Following a strategic review by the mutual.