The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is investigating thousands of annuities sold on a non-advised basis since 2008 to see if they were unsuitable for savers.

Here is our weekly heads-up on the stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend...

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has indicated the recent turmoil in China's economy and financial markets that rocked global stocks, has not derailed his plans for interest rates.

Royal London has sold the client bank of its old direct to consumer (D2C) fund platform, Fundsdirect, to online direct investment firm Strawberry Invest.

Rathbones' Julian Chillingworth analyses the key considerations for central bankers as they decide on the trajectory of future monetary policy.

Are providers cutting advisers out of the group personal pension process to pocket the difference in charges? And is there anything wrong with that?

A firm marketing hedge fund and pay day loan investments to the general public has bowed to pressure from financial advisers and pledged to overhaul its website after concerns the language it uses sets out to deceive potential investors.

PA readers are a committed lot, keen to read us even on their summer hols. But one adviser saw something that melted his Mr Whippy..

A former financial adviser has been jailed for six years for stealing hundreds of thousands of pounds from vulnerable clients - including more than £103,000 from a person with learning difficulties.

Provider Aegon has been accused of poaching dozens of an adviser's clients but the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the provider has broken no rules despite complaints from retirees.