Resolution Asset Management (RAM) has appointed former Threadneedle Pan-European research head Neil Richardson as deputy head of UK equities.

The FSA has appointed two senior advisers, Graeme Hardie and Ian Marshall, to take responsibility for retail markets and wholesale insurance respectively.

The FSA should not restrict 'advice' to solely whole of market post RDR, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) urges.

Lowes Wealth Management (LWM), in conjunction with WAY Fund Managers, is set to launch the Elite LWM East-West Value fund, the first sub fund of the Elite LWM Value Portfolio.

Skandia has poached Bankhall's Peter Mann who will take up his new role as its chief development officer on 6 October.

The FSA is rolling out its financial educational programme to a further 50 universities in light of the poor fiscal management among UK adults.

The number of mortgages approved for house purchase have fallen to a new record low in August 2008 and have dropped by more than two thirds in the past year, according to the British Bankers Association (BBA).

The need for wider access to financial advice has now become "urgent as well as important" in the wake of the extraordinary market developments of the last week, Otto Thoresen says.

Aegon UK chief executive Otto Thoresen has called on the Government to act urgently in making professional financial advice part of its policy response to the current economic crisis.

Bankhall CEO Peter Mann is to leave the IFA support services firm after seven years for a new role as chief development officer at Skandia UK.