A petition is demanding soon-to-be acting head of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Tracey McDermott enact an independent review of advice firm regulation, after an IFA was forced to pay a 320% increase in his Financial Services Compensation Scheme...

Budgets are forgotten once the media frenzy dies down but some of its proposals threaten a nasty after-shock...

When should you look at taking clients' money away from an underperforming manager?

Fraudsters have compiled a database of nearly 200,000 people - with an average age of 74 - on so-called "suckers lists".

Is the UK is facing a different type of advice gap: too few advisers for the number of people needing them?

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has admitted a break down in discussions led to it failing to achieve a redress deal for investors in collapsed firm Connaught, causing further delays and "serious distress" to investors.

Hawkish members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) keen to begin edging up interest rates were cowed by the recent turmoil in Greece, its latest meeting minutes reveal.

Adolescence is over for the financial advice industry, according to Stephen Harper...

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

Jupiter is handing its £60m investment trust savings and ISA businesses to Hargreaves Lansdown to administer, in a deal for an undisclosed sum.