Financial Planner Andrew Shepherd, currently chief executive at wealth manager Brooks Macdonald, is one of two new appointments to the board of wealth management trade body PIMFA.

Pensions Minister Laura Trott has announced a major shake-up of private pensions to create “fairer, more predictable, and better-run pensions.”

Pension trade body the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) is to focus on expanding the scope and level of automatic enrolment as its top strategic policy objective in 2023.

Wealth and investment manager Church House Investments has appointed investment manager Cranley Macfarlane from fund manager Tellsons Investors as a client director .

Baroness Manzoor has been reappointed as chair of the Financial Ombudsman Service after serving more than three and a half years in the role.

Legal & General chief executive Sir Nigel Wilson will retire this year once a replacement is found, after more than a decade in the role and 14 years with the firm.

SSAS firm WestBridge is rebranding as The WBR Group after completing its acquisition of failed pension firm Rowanmoor’s SSAS business.

Derby-based Chartered Financial Planner Jamie Lavery has joined national IFA Continuum to look after the Derbyshire area for the Financial Planning focused business.

Pension experts have called for pension tax reform to help meet Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's call to get more people back into work, including older workers, to help Britain.

Don MacIntyre, interim chief executive of the Personal Finance Society, has praised the “passion and strength of feeling” of PFS members following the conclusion today of its member consultation on its dispute with parent body the CII.