After last week's run-down of Labour's biggest financial cock-ups, IFAonline brings you the worst financial gaffes thrust on society by the Conservatives. *Warning: The following may stir some unhappy memories...

Perspective has appointed Ian Wilkinson as its group practice director to integrate working relationships across the firms within the consolidation vehicle.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is now investigating the activities, control and ownership of Lifemark, and the activities of Keydata in marketing and selling products underpinned by bonds issued by Lifemark.

Convicted fraudster Kevin Foster was today jailed for 10 years for duping more than 8,000 investors through a number of investment scams.

Adviser support firm SimplyBiz has appointed two regional development managers to help run its new Verbatim Asset Management offering.

A week may be a long time in politics, but after 13 years in power Labour probably wants the public to keep their memories short and sweet. So just in case, IFAonline brings you a definitive list of financial blunders Labour would rather you forgot......

An IFA caught up in the Keydata debacle is urging investors not to pin all their hopes on a judicial review into the failed investment vehicle.

Advisers rate the ability to keep a tight grip on risk above maximising returns when recommending funds to clients, Skandia research suggests.

The FSA has fined a London stock broking firm and senior director £235,000 for putting customers at risk of agressive sales tactics in penny share dealings.

Firms unable to show they can provide an ongoing service to the clients of an exiting adviser should be forced to let the adviser leave with them, 2plan Wealth Management CEO Chris Smallwood says.