Pension and wealth management consultancy Mattioli Woods boosted revenues by 12.7% to £7.43m in the six months to 30 November.

The FSA may extend to other retail markets the practice of requiring advisers to justify recommending a product with higher charges compared to a more basic vehicle.

Former Legal & General IFA sales director Iain Clark will join LV= as director of protection.

Teachers may take part in a mass walk-out over government demands they increase pensions contributions.

Pointon York has launched Family Trust, a retirement planning tool for families and business associates.

More than three quarters of advisers are confident they will still be trading come 1 January 2013, the day the RDR is introduced, according to Aviva research.

IFAs are overwhelmingly in support of allowing savers access to their pension funds before retirement age, according to Suffolk Life.

Another quarter, another social media phenomenon IFAs will be told to get onboard with. This time around, it’s Quora. It isn’t, as one asset manager thought, a vegetarian meat-alternative. It’s a social answering service that’s causing all the fuss.

Japanese police are investigating a man they believe hid the corpse of his father in a cupboard in order to keep receiving his pension cheques.

Plans to scrap or reform 192 quangos, including the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the Pensions Ombudsman (PO) and the Pension Protection Fund Ombudsman (PPFO), has been ‘botched' according to MPs.