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A project management checklist for advisers

Aberdeen Asset Management's head of acquisitions Hugh Little is to retire from the business after almost three decades at the fund house.

Adviser consolidator Succession group has bought DNG Financial Solutions, its fourteenth member firm buyout en route to a target of 50 firms by end 2017.

'Complaints handling is being scrutinised on a global scale'

Consolidator Bellpenny has completed two more IFA acquisitions bringing an additional £56m in funds under management and more than 250 clients.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a paper clarifying its stance on how advisers will be held liable when dealing with insistent clients.

Lessons from across the pond

Wealth manager Sanlam UK has bought a 20% stake in the Caerus network alongside the firm's entire asset management business.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has looked east for its new head of enforcement, bringing in the man who currently heads up the same division for the Hong Kong regulator.

State-owned Lloyds Banking Group has been hit with a £117m fine by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the "largest retail fine" it has ever issued.