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Arch Financial Products chief executive Robin Farrell and compliance officer Robert Addison have called in administrators to liquidate the company, weeks after the High Court ruled it had been negligent in its management of the failed Arch cru fund range....

Listed advice firm Lighthouse Group has teamed with a discretionary investment manager to create a 'cost-effective' focused investment advice service to be delivered online.

Former international cricketer Douglas Lockhart has joined Tilney Bestinvest as an associate director.

Incisive Media, publishers of Investment Week, Professional Adviser and a range of other titles, has agreed a refinancing deal which sees private equity firm Alchemy Partners take a majority stake in the business.

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The freedom to sell your annuity (read: The freedom to get screwed)

An adviser trade association is calling on the regulator to ensure its final guidance on using social media channels is clear after a poll of members suggested more than a third were unaware the watchdog was looking into the issue.

Adviser network Financial Ltd has received numerous applications from firms to join since a recruitment ban was lifted late last year, director Brian Galvin has said.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is to make further cuts to its operating budget in the coming financial year and has frozen its levy at £23.3m.

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