Fidelity is looking for a head of retirement insight to strengthen its profile in the UK retirement market.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has sent out 4,600 letters to firms asking them how much it would cost them to implement European legislation the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II).

The chief executive of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has renewed his call to policy makers to extend financial protection to the total value of peoples' retirement savings.

A change in the way the government collects tax on pension savings will not make people save more way for their retirement, according to the latest consumer research.

Adviser network Sesame posted a loss of £10.3m in the year before it pulled the plug on its investment adviser arm - £20m less than the previous year, latest accounts show.

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has called on the regulator to cut its handbook on adviser disclosure by a third, saying too many rules lead to lengthy suitability reports that confuse consumers.

Self-invested personal pensions (SIPP) should not buckle under regulatory pressure to become plain vanilla share class wrappers as clients need diversification in their portfolios, Mattioli Woods has said.

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Carbon credit adviser Archer Bramley has been named as one of 28 investment and pensions firms declared in default by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) between May and August.

Providers need to simplify drawdown charges or the regulator will intervene, founder of The Platforum and Boring Money Holly Mackay has said.