M&G has announced today Ben Cherrington will join as partnerships development manager from 1 January 2010.

Two thirds of advisers expect their platform transactions to increase over the next year due to the benefits of consolidation, suggests research by Skandia.

Clients and IFAs have wildly different estimates of the value per hour of independent financial advice in the build-up to 2012, research suggests.

A 'streamlined' advice service sitting in between full advice and the Government's much simpler Money Guidance scheme is proposed today by the ABI.

Women now lag even further behind men in the pension savings stakes, with ignorance about retirement provision leaving them increasingly vulnerable to post-work poverty, research suggests.

UK interest rates will stay at current 0.5% levels until 2011 and will only climb to 2% by around 2014, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).

Steve Bee is set to highlight what he sees as the key issues affecting the pensions market at Ascentric's first series of adviser conferences.

The FSA will continue to tighten financial regulation until the UK banking system becomes more liquid and less leveraged, says FSA managing director Sally Dewer.

Wrap provider Novia is offering advisers an exclusive version of the protected Julius Baer Physical Gold fund.

Investors who try to renege on property deals in the wake of the recession are liable to face court orders to complete, lawyers warn.