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Business consultancy Succession Advisory Services has hired 2plan Wealth Management recruitment director Ian Smith as part of a £1m investment in its transition and support programme for member firms.

Paul McNamara, managing director of group strategy and corporate finance at Standard Life, has left the company.

The chief executive of F&C Asset Management collected a £1m cash-and-shares bonus last year as the spotlight turns on fund manager pay in the wake of the financial crisis.

Independent advisers generate just a tiny portion of the total net revenue produced by the industry yet contribute a far larger chunk of its annual costs, an economics team has found.

A financial adviser has been handed a suspended 10-month prison sentence for mortgage fraud following an investigation which began as an illegal drugs probe.

Investment advisers are this week counting the cost of a controversial £80m FSCS interim levy to cover the collapses last year of Keydata Investment Services and two stockbrokers.

Certified financial planner (CFP) Ken Robinson has opted for a novel way to calm his clients in the economic downturn.

The management of the Government's strategy for helping people in debt has been branded a "complete failure" by a committee of MPs.

Prudential boss Tidjane Thiam is due to earn a pay package worth up to £5.2m this year as he spearheads the biggest takeover in the insurer's history, it has been revealed.