The April pension freedoms mean greater flexibility in accessing pension funds, but ensuring people are clearly picturing where their money can and will go is important to its success, says Mark Loosmore

Hargreave Hale has poached two investment managers from Brewin Dolphin to open an office in Norwich.

Two firm directors who lost investors about £60m in a scheme the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) branded "an elaborate scam" have had their sentencing postponed following fresh allegations made at the eleventh hour.

Investors in failed fund Connaught who are trying to claw back some of their losses must wait longer in limbo as the regulator admits it has still not brokered a deal to secure redress for them.

How advisers can make money out of the Standard Life/Pearson deal

Standard Life has reported modest growth in its UK business for 2014, with profits before costs up nearly 6% during the year, driven by demand for the life company's auto-enrolment workplace pensions.

Ian Aylward has cut Aviva Investors' multi-manager exposure to US equities to an underweight position for the first time since 2011, fearing the stocks are deeply over valued.

Are plummeting inflation numbers seen everywhere from the UK to China a sign of a deeper malaise?

Phoenix Life is deliberately withholding accurate performance data on the £37bn of with-profits bonds it manages in order to keep investors from exiting the "dreadful" investments in droves, according to a damning report by an IFA.

Germany has said it is willing to compromise with Greece on the terms of repaying its bailout debt.