Axa Wealth recorded a 45% rise in assets under management at its Elevate platform in the third quarter of the year, helping the group push its overall assets toward £25bn.

Attendees to the Institute of Financial Planning's (IFP) Scottish conference will get the chance to hear from Ian Woodall, a British climber who has conquered Mount Everest on several occasions.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has announced that three members of its executive team, including Stephen Gay and Maggie Craig, are to leave the trade body.

We are inviting advisory firms to enter the Professional Adviser Awards 2014.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out what it expects from platforms and advisers when transferring investors from pre- to post-RDR unit classes.

Changes introduced as a result of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) are likely to lower retail advisers' share of the investment market, but they do not represent the "death knell" for the sector, according to an investment group.

Hargreaves Lansdown's direct-to-investor proposition Vantage saw a net increase of 20,000 clients in the three months to October, as total assets across the fund seller rose to a record £39bn.

Hargreaves Lansdown is in position to be a £39bn beneficiary of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), according to Barclays.

The Chancellor, George Osborne, has announced he will give his annual Autumn Statement to parliament on 4 December 2013.

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