Advisers must be "very vigilant about providers approaching their clients direct" by making sure they get as close as possible to them over the coming months, a partner at RSM Tenon has said.

Too much attention is being paid to industry dinosaurs who are dragging their heels on auto-enrolment and not enough to those embracing the opportunity to make it work, according to a pension expert.

Just Retirement has said that it plans to enter the long-term care market within the next few months.

Aviva has signed an exclusive three-year deal with the Lighthouse Group to provide life protection products through its national adviser division, Lighthouse Financial Advice (LFA).

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The pensions industry must prove to government that it is "part of the solution to the pensions issue and not the problem," the director of life, pensions and savings for the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has said.

Who moved where in another busy week in financial services...

One financial marketing guru struck a chord with advisers at PIMS 2013 by providing tips for advisers looking to grow their client bank with limited time and budget.

Advisers should be aware that their clients may be unreasonably seduced by the idea that a bespoke discretionary fund managed (DFM) portfolio is 'created especially for them', according to one asset manager.

In what now seems to be a positive climate for financial advisers, almost half see low interest rates as their biggest opportunity, according to the latest Aviva barometer.