Adviser network Tenet is offering its members licences to self-approve drawdown advice in a bid to speed up its processes ahead of the incoming pension reforms.

Arch Financial Products chief executive Robin Farrell and compliance officer Robert Addison have called in administrators to liquidate the company, weeks after the High Court ruled it had been negligent in its management of the failed Arch cru fund range....

Listed advice firm Lighthouse Group has teamed with a discretionary investment manager to create a 'cost-effective' focused investment advice service to be delivered online.

The majority shareholder in a student property fund sold by advisers to retail investors called for the fund to be liquidated after redemptions were suspended for more than a year.

A quarter of consumers plan to make paying down their debt a priority in the coming year, research by a financial services firm has found.

Advisers could lose thousands of pounds in probate fees as platform funds are being converted to clean share classes, which don't support ongoing trail payments upon client death.

An adviser trade association is calling on the regulator to ensure its final guidance on using social media channels is clear after a poll of members suggested more than a third were unaware the watchdog was looking into the issue.

Adviser network Financial Ltd has received numerous applications from firms to join since a recruitment ban was lifted late last year, director Brian Galvin has said.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is to start compensating investors in failed investment group Hartmann Capital.

Two financial services firms have teamed up with property surveyors to fuel their growth strategies and benefit from new revenue streams in the UK housing market.