Aviva is to axe four products to new business, including its Aviva self-invested personal pension (SIPP), blaming duplication in the product range for the move.

Zurich is to cut 200 jobs from across its UK Life business.

Professional indemnity (PI) insurance will not be cheaper for restricted advisers, despite some companies "peddling" this message to the industry, according to Sense commercial director Steve Young.

People are increasingly turning to friends and family rather than advisers for pensions advice, according to research released today.

A pensions specialist is challenging calls from a Conservative councillor to lifts restrictions on residential property investment in SIPPs, stating some issues must be "carefully thrashed out" first.

Scottish Life is the latest provider to accept requests from former Honister Capital IFAs to transfer in bulk the advisers' clients to their new employer.

Skandia has developed an iPad version of its ‘appetite for risk' app which was released for the iPhone in April this year.

David Hickey's departure from Lighthouse Group has resulted in a significant investor withdrawing a demand for its board to be restructured.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) insists that it has reauthorised the vast majority of ex-Honister advisers who applied within its voluntary time frame, despite concerns among some advisers that the process has been slower than promised.

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