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Lighthouse Financial Advice, the middle market unit within national adviser Lighthouse Group, has extended a contract to provide advice to members of a motoring and leisure club for a further three years.

Vanguard is to cut charges on 25 UK and Irish-domiciled funds, including its LifeStrategy range, as it responds to recent price cuts from other providers in the tracker space.

West Bromwich Building Society sales and marketing director Richard Hopwood has left the business following a restructure of its executive team.

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Consolidator and wealth manager Succession Group has made its tenth acquisition putting it a step closer to achieving its target of 50 firms by 2017.

Fee-based IFA Money Wise is looking to recruit advisers after putting a full-year loss for 2013 down to its "sub-scale" branches.

IFG Group, which owns James Hay Partnership and high net worth IFA Saunderson House, has agreed to sell its Irish pension administration and advisory businesses for £10.8m.

Independent advisory firm Saunderson House, which charges for advice on a per-hour basis, posted a 6% increase in profits to more than £4m in 2013.

A 'charter' for financial services firms using social media has launched weeks after the regulator published guidelines on how to communicate compliantly on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

All regulated financial advisers could be included on a new directory being set up by the Money Advice Service (MAS) after the industry and consumers gave the green light to the project.