The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined details of its new supervision strategy, including dropping some firms' individual supervisors.

Standard Life said advisers need to act to avoid being trapped in dying platform partnerships, as it predicted the market will shrink to a handful of providers.

IFA PQR Financial Planning has launched a pension transfer advice service for clients of advisers who are reluctant or unable to carry out the business.

Should product providers and asset managers enter the advice market?

The regulator has said it understands advisers' concerns about their liability for simplified advice, saying it has made the issue a core part of the Financial Advice Market Review (FAMR).

The regulator is likely to shrug off calls from the Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) to create a quality rating for firms, on the grounds it does not have the resources to take on the burden, a law firm has said.

Adviser consolidator Attivo has acquired its seventh firm this year with 180-active-client IFA C R Toogood Financial Planning.

Tax relief at the point of retirement saving is the most powerful way to get people to create a later life nest egg, according to Zurich, making it the latest provider to come out against the government's plans to treat pensions like ISAs.

A tax avoidance advice 'timebomb' built up over a decade could send a "significant" number of new claims to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) now that the body has agreed to deal with similar cases, a firm representing unhappy clients...

Government plans to merge ISAs and pensions would harm retirement saving and mean more retirees run out of money, Axa Wealth head of retirement planning Andy Zanelli has warned.