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Without new models in the financial services market the ‘advice gap' is here to stay, a report warns.

Almost a quarter of UK advisers who charge £100 or less for their services face a 40% drop in income from 1 January next year as rules outlawing the payment of commissions to advisers come into force, research suggests.

Chancellor George Osborne "buried" plans in last week's budget to offer a tax break to non-doms, according to an analysis of the budget small print by a Labour peer.

Towergate Financial has acquired the financial planning business of the Melton Mowbray Building Society.

This is the second of our fortnightly voxpops in which we gauge the views of consumers on a range of topics of interest to financial advisers...

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Insolvency practitioner Probitas has been instructed to begin winding up pension specialist Rockingham Independent.

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