Cofunds has appointed Openwork CEO Martin Davis as chief executive.

An IFA has been fined £35k for failures relating to the promotion of unregulated collective investment schemes to clients. So when can (and can't) you recommend UCIS?

Professional Adviser, supported by the Chartered Insurance Institute, today launches a new initiative to help advisers achieve and maintain the highest levels of professionalism.

It has been another busy week in financial services...

Goldman Sachs will be referred to the US Department of Justice for allegedly making "misleading and inaccurate" comments to Congress over its role in the financial crisis.

Financial advisory group Honister Capital is considering moving away from its current pricing strategy whereby it charges advisers according to their level of income, saying it is "not in the spirit" of RDR.

Business consultant Steve Billingham says leaving things to the last minute, as so many advisers are wont to do, is a dangerous game with so few weeks left to RDR.

Asian stocks declined the most in almost a month on Tuesday after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its economic growth forecasts for the US and Japan.

The Japanese government has raised the severity of the crisis at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant to 7, a rating only previously applied following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Adrian Grace, the new chief executive of Aegon UK, discusses filling Otto Thoresen's shoes, the insurer's platform tie-up with Novia and a commitment to the intermediary market.