Protection

Advisers and providers reiterated the "catastrophe" that would befall the advice sector if the incoming Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) read across a ban on commission in the retail investment market to protection.

Local authorities should only recommend regulated financial advisers to people requiring advice on funding their long-term care, an influential committee has recommended.

Symponia has called today's social care announcement "a clever pre-Budget manoeuvre" designed to divert attention away from the ailing coalition.

Chancellor George Osborne is to bring forward the introduction of the flat-rate state pension and the cap on social care by a year.

Today the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) released its research, spanning five years, into the shape of the adviser marketplace. Here IFAonline breaks down its findings into the key numbers.

Just Retirement has called on government to it make compulsory in the incoming Care and Support bill that local authorities refer care funders to regulated financial advisers.

Insurance giant Legal & General (L&G) has reported increased operating profit of £1,087m following double digit sales growth.

Insurance giant Aviva is likely to shock the City when it posts a £3bn loss in its full-year results this week, the Sunday Times reports.

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