Advised platform customers rose 6% for AJ Bell to 182,000 (2024: 171,000) for the year ended 30 September.

Schroder Investment Solutions is to launch a new Blended model portfolio service in early 2026.

The FCA is to go ahead with a simplified complaints process to make it easier for firms to report consumer complaints to it.

Over one in four savers (27%) expect to be either totally or heavily reliant on the State Pension in retirement.

AJ Bell Investcentre has launched two new estate planning trusts, with a third to follow, to boost options for advisers involved in estate planning.

The FCA is to open applications for a second cohort of live AI testing in January, with participating firms able to start testing in April.

Chartered Financial Planning firm One Four Nine Wealth has opened a new office in Glasgow to spearhead its growth in Scotland.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has issued rulings against a trio of unregulated art investment firms over misleading online adverts.

The FCA has imposed its first censure on a professional body, the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB), for failings in relation to its anti-money laundering supervision.

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