The amount of people planning to sell their property to fund their retirement has risen by 4%, according to research commissioned by Baring Asset Management, making it the highest number since 2009.

The Financial Ombudsman Service's (FOS) executive team has earned a total of £1.442m including benefits in the 2012/13 financial year, according to its audited directors' report and financial statements published last week.

A growing number of wealth managers are shutting their doors on US expatriates as a controversial new tax law nears its implementation, according to an international advisory firm.

Adviser support group Tenet's petition asking the government for a long-stop for financial advice complaints has reached 2,098 signatures in only ten days.

The majority of consumers are showing an "extremely worrying" lack of understanding about their pension plans, new research suggests.

The Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) has launched its new website including a designated space for paraplanners, the Paraplanner Zone.

Prudential is on track to achieve the outstanding two of six objectives it set itself in 2010 following the controversial takeover attempt of Asian insurer AIA.

Prudential has boosted operating profits by 22% in the first six months of the year but said UK sales had been hit by the implementation of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is concerned about execution-only, or non-advised, sales and the commission payments that such transactions are still allowed to collect.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is concerned about being too retrospective in its approach and said further work needed to be done to improve certainty for regulated firms, board minutes have revealed.