Adviser and wealth manager Ashcourt Rowan is developing its own in-house platform, due to be rolled out later this year.

Advisers are beginning to assess the impact of how the latest Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) levy will impact their business.

National IFA Towry has announced "record" profits for 2011, after poor performance in 2010.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has set its budget for 2012/3 at £191.1m, meaning both the case fee and total levy will be frozen for the third year running.

Aviva's director of distribution development, Dean Lamble, has left the company after just over a year in the position.

A bill in Australia widely seen to mirror the UK's Retail Distribution Review has been passed by its parliament - albeit in a watered down form.

Investors in stricken life settlements fund ARM Asset Backed Securities (ARM) are believed to be considering a class action lawsuit against the firm for the recovery of their assets.

An "alarming" 80% of client assets are from the over-50s age group, according to research.

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The limit at which child benefit will be scrapped for families has been increased to £50,000, Chancellor George Osborne announced today.