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An IFA has said at least two of his advisers and one of the accountants he works with have been cold called by firms trying to sell them and their clients pension unlocking schemes.

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European legislation the Markets in Financial Instruments directive (Mifid II) is the glaring omission from discussions about the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), according to the chief executive of the Association of Private Client Investment Managers...

A national campaign has been launched to try to tackle the estimated £1.2bn of fraud suffered by UK investors every year.

An IFA has helped a couple win compensation from high street bank Santander after the bank was unable to tell the clients how many accounts they had or how much money they had invested.

IFAs formerly part of the Paradigm Financial Advisers network - which was last month bought by Caerus Capital - are hoping for a turnaround in service standards when the new ownership comes into force.

A financial adviser from Henley-on-Thames has been jailed for 14 months after giving false financial advice to an elderly woman.

The government may need to compel people to undertake long-term savings because it cannot afford to support those who do not save adequately on their own, a think-tank report says.

Hopes were rising in Brussels that an unlikely deal with the UK over the EU's long-term budget was taking shape, although the chief negotiator was trying to resolve a deluge of last-minute complaints from other countries on the eve of what could be a...