A client who protested about commission being taken from his pension without his permission and without receiving ongoing advice in return has had his complaint rejected by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).

Accredited paraplanner Claire Goodwin is set to join outsourced business The Paraplanners later this month.

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An event for paraplanners - who get to vote on their preferred topics of discussion beforehand - is set to take place in London later this month.

J.P.Morgan Chase & Co has revealed it paid more than 100 of its top staff in the UK an average of £2m each in 2012.

Peter Hargreaves, the co-founder and former CEO of Hargreaves Lansdown, has been given a CBE in the New Year's Honours list, while former Bank of England (BoE) deputy governor Paul Tucker has been knighted.

A film scheme marketed as a tax efficient way to invest in the movie industry and which had signed up former England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has been defeated by the Upper Tax Tribunal.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FCSC) "continues to be challenged" by the complexity of some firm failures in the investment intermediation sector, its chief executive Mark Neale has remarked.

The government should reconsider its Help to Buy housing scheme, according to business secretary Vince Cable, who spoke of a "raging housing boom' in London and South East England.