Platform assets under administration (AUA) only rose by 3.62% in Q1 as advisers' fears grew about the regulatory impact of using the technology, according to research by The Platforum.

Much is currently written about the problems facing our market. If the problems were one dimensional then I think we would have fixed them by now.

The collapse of debt management firm debtDr just before Easter was a huge blow for its users but also advisers who recommended the firm to clients.

Peter Brodnicki, chief executive of the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), gives his tips on making the move to fee-charging.

Britons with billions of pounds hidden in Switzerland will pay tax at 50% under a deal legitimising their undeclared assets, according to a source familiar with the situation.

At the time of writing, the banks are mulling whether to mount an appeal after they lost their judicial review against an FSA ruling on payment protection insurance (PPI).

BP profits fell 2% to £3.32bn in Q1 2011, as the oil giant sold assets to pay for the clean-up operation from last year's Deepwater Horizon disaster.

A piece of research from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) really got advisers’ backs up this week.

Hargreaves Lansdown gathered a record £1.16bn of net new assets during a quarter which saw it enter the FTSE 100 for the first time.

Henderson's Stephen Peak complained bitterly about the £1.2m discretionary bonus paid to Gartmore CEO Jeff Meyer and demanded it be revoked.