National IFA Positive Solutions is effectively increasing the charges it levies on some partners in an effort to offset rising regulatory costs and return to profit.

A service offering expert guidance for principals on how to develop and prepare an exit strategy has been launched by Bankhall.

Positive Solutions has been forced to pay out more than £1m to cover compensation costs relating to a number of investment failures last year.

Election crisps are being handed out to commuters in an experiment which may identify the winner of the 6 May General Election.

A new way of calculating IFAs' share of the FSA's annual fees which would see intermediary firms pay a third of current estimates in 2010/11 has been put to the regulator by the Association of IFAs (AIFA).

Nick Cann, chief executive of the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP), has been forced to cancel a work-related trip to Taiwan as the ash cloud spewed out by an Iceland volcano continues to wreak travel chaos.

A ‘performance' coach who has worked with international rugby teams will speak about the psychology of success at an Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) event next week.

So it turns out our list of Labour's biggest blunders was just the tip of the iceberg.

Mike Sargeant, managing director of Pharon IFA for the past six years and an employee for the last 23, is taking early retirement.

Fresh concerns over advisers' minimum qualifications surfaced this week after the trade body for IFAs launched its own exam option at a level above that proposed in the RDR.