A financial adviser who stole thousands of pounds from clients to fund a lavish lifestyle has received a ten-year jail sentence.

Two Norwich Union employees from Sheffield have been jailed for five and a half years after using customers' personal details to poach over £600,000.

AWD Chase de Vere is launching a bespoke wealth management service offering sophisticated financial planning techniques to high net worth clients, reports Professional Adviser .

Trustees of final salary pension schemes should act to support their sponsor companies during the economic downturn, despite facing a £45bn annual shortfall, according to Aon Consulting.

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has launched a number of podcasts for its claims, underwriting and broker members to help them tackle fraud in the industry.

Fidelity International will host a series of volatility workshops for advisers throughout November, at 24 venues nationwide.

Over 20 million households have been eating into their savings for the past year as the recession bites, with the poorest hardest hit, according to Axa.

Jupiter Asset Management has unveiled the name of four private client fund managers poached from Bestinvest.

Jupiter has appointed Matteo Dante Perruccio as non-executive director.

Friends Provident (FP) has revealed a 24pc fall in UK new life and pensions business in the first nine months of this year, while the group also said it will continue to peruse opportunities to dispose of its 52pc share in F&C through a capital reduction....