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TailorMade, a UK distributor of investments in Harlequin Property, has said it stopped taking new money into the overseas property scheme in January following a Financial Services Authority (FSA) alert about Harlequin.

An online tool to promote local whole of market advice for annuity purchase has been launched by an IFA.

There could be 1.5 million self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs) by 2018 despite FSA regulation potentially contracting the number of providers in the market, according to John Moret.

The number of advising staff working in financial advice firms fell 9% last year, according to figures put together for the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA).

In this week's quick fire poll we ask: Have you seen a surge of clients interested in investing in commercial property?

Adrian Walker discusses how new drawdown rules could trigger an advice point for pre-A-Day drawdown clients close to LTA threshold

Retirement Planner's round-up of the top pension stories this week.

A law firm has warned that some property investments made with Harlequin Group via a self-invested personal pension (SIPP) may have breached lending rules.