Vestra Wealth has appointed Cofunds as its fund custodian in a deal which will see the wealth management partnership entrust over £600m in assets.

Three men have been sentenced to nine years for a boiler-room investment fraud, the Serious Fraud Office has said, including one man who stole the identity of a registered financial adviser to commit the crime.

Paradigm Group is in talks with Honister Capital to acquire the IFA network.

Nine out of ten investors are concerned about synthetic exchange traded funds (ETFs) on the back of a series of warnings from global regulators about their dangers, research suggests.

The FSA is set to undertake an examination of how platforms are regulated in other countries as part of its ongoing research into platform remuneration.

Senior industry figures have backed a new consultation by the FSA into whether or not to extend a proposed fund manager rebate ban to life insurance products.

SPDR ETFs, the exchange traded fund (ETF) platform of State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), has registered a new fixed income ETF for sale in the UK.

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Zurich UK has delayed the launch of its retail platform until early next year.

The FSA said it hopes a consultation paper on the treatment of commission on legacy assets has "put to bed" any confusion on the issue, but it warned product providers yet to adapt their systems face an arduous task preparing for the rule change.