Aberdeen Asset Management is to acquire discretionary fund manager and platform Parmenion.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) wants to add an undergraduate degree in financial planning to its list of approved qualifications.

Investors in suspended traded life policy fund EEA Life Settlements will share £56m in proceeds from the sale of some of its assets, though a shareholder group has voiced concerns the deal strips future value from the fund.

The City regulators will launch a new Financial Services Register to make it easier to find information on those they regulate - including scam firms for the first time.

Fund manager Octopus Investments is launching an Adviser Academy, an online learning portal for tax-efficient investing.

The four proposition platitudes of fund management

Financial advisers who put ordinary investors' money into collapsed £60m property scheme Arck face an even greater struggle with complaints, after the Ombudsman upheld a ruling that the investment was likely to be suitable only for sophisticated clients....

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Tilney Bestinvest, the investment and financial planning group, has hired four financial planners from across the UK to its expanding team, including a Personal Finance Society (PFS) Fellow.

Martin Dodd shares some nuggets of wisdom from three decades in the adviser's chair...