Towergate Financial has appointed Steve Petrie as a director working in its private client business.

A platform pricing regime based solely on unbundled charges will be detrimental to consumers and remove choice, warns Cofunds.

Glasgow-based adviser Strategic Asset Managers has joined wrap provider Nucleus as the business prepares for the RDR.

North-east national IFA network Moneygate - recently linked to the purchase of the Alpha to Omega (A2O) network - has selected Ascentric to power its wrap proposition.

The technology to develop employee benefits platforms is available today, but a lack of common standards makes integration one of the biggest hurdles facing their rollout, says The Platforum.

The majority of clients transfer out of with-profits funds following reviews, say advisers.

Fund managers expect Europe - a forgotten player in investment terms - to emerge a "stronger player" from the Greek debt debacle.

Investors can now check the performance of their portfolios anywhere in the world and at any time with the launch of a new service from MBA.

The City regulator has warned the cost of bailing out the banking sector could be as much as £140bn - far higher than Treasury forecasts.

Investors should turn to commodities underpinned by the emerging economies to shelter from an inflation storm set to hit the UK, says the manager of the Fidelity Global Real Assets fund.