A triple deserving of a closer look, according to the investment team at Charles Stanley

Adviser network Personal Touch Financial Services has written to members informing them of a planned fee increase after suffering what it called "indiscriminate" increases to its regulatory costs.

Savers have withdrawn £2.5bn from their pensions - mostly in cash lump sums - since the government's wide-ranging retirement reforms in April, latest figures show.

National advice firm Lighthouse Group has entered an 'affinity' contract with the Association Of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), gaining it access to 170,000 prospective new clients.

Will IFP-CISI merger damage financial planning?

Adviser network Personal Touch Financial Services is requiring advisers who want to give retirement advice post pensions freedom to attain a new retirement-specific top-up exam.

Almost all advisers have received enquiries for retirement advice as a result of the government's pension freedom reforms, according to latest research by the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA).

CISI chief Simon Culhane on body's proposed merger with the IFP

A group campaigning against the merger of the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) and Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI) has pulled out after discovering the IFP did not have enough money to continue going alone.

Advisory firm Saunderson House has credited a 25% upswing in the number of new clients with a strategic focus on building relationships with customers "earlier in their career".