The Financial Conduct Authority is prosecuting five people for involvement in an alleged £1.2m ‘binary options’ investment fraud between 2016 and 2020 and an attempted cover up in 2022.

Standard Life, part of the Phoenix Group, has appointed Dean Butler to a newly-created role of managing director of retail direct.

Just 1% of financial advisers and wealth managers “completely trust” the sustainability claims made by funds, according to a new report.

More than 3 in 4 consumers have no idea what pension acronyms such as SIPP or ESG mean, according to a new study.

Chartered Financial Planner Ella Davies of Clarion Wealth Planning in Cheshire has begun a mentoring role as a ‘big sister’ to a teenage girl.

The Chartered Insurance Institute and its sister professional body for Financial Planners, the Personal Finance Society, have appointed Mathew Mallett as chief digital and information officer.

Investment and wealth manager M&G has appointed former Sesame Bankhall Group chief Ross Liston as chief executive of its Financial Planning-focused wealth division M&G Wealth Advice.

A quarter of adults have stopped or are planning to stop contributing to their workplace pensions in order to keep up with rising living costs, a new study has found.

Hard-pressed Britons, particularly younger ones, are struggling to cope mentally with rising bills, new research from the Personal Finance Society (PFS) has revealed today.

Nearly 2,500 financial professionals have so far signed up to attend the Personal Finance Society’s two-day Festival of Financial Planning which gets under way tomorrow.