The government has launched an online tax calculator enabling people to work out how much tax they have paid and how it is spent.

Sanlam Private Wealth (SPW) has acquired the client bank of Twickenham-based IFA Camilleri & Associates.

Nucleus has bolstered its wrap operations team with the appointment of former Standard Life man Martin Leckie as investment operations manager.

Platform Ascentric is to hold a series of open days for advisers to help them better understand the service.

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AWD Chase de Vere has stressed it will remain independent post-RDR and will not develop a restricted or simplified advice offering.

Chancellor George Osborne has said the UK government is making contingency plans for a Greek exit from the euro as the crisis in the region reaches a "critical" point.

Advisers should push ahead with platform strategy reviews amid concerns the delayed platform paper could see them "take their foot off the pedal", Alliance Trust Savings has warned.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned a self-appointed insurance broking director from performing regulated functions after he "misled" the regulator and acted dishonestly.

A financial adviser has scaled Mount Everest - in the same weekend three other climbers died after reaching the summit of the Himalayan peak.