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Investors should respond to the looming rise in interest rates with "equanimity" and carry on as usual, international investment strategist at advice firm deVere Group, Tom Elliott, has suggested.

Our weekly heads-up on events, jobs and hires, plus some other bits and bobs for professional financial advisers...

Nearly half of advisers already have the majority of their recurring revenue coming from fees, according to a FundsNetwork survey, with less than two years to go until the April 2016 deadline where all on-platform assets need to be moved to clean share...

Former director of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) Maggie Craig has been appointed as the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) interim head of savings, investments and distribution.

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has revived its joint scheme with Citizens Advice and plans to roll out pro bono advice across 100 of the organisation's branches with the "capacity to expand further".

Lloyds is continuing to pressurise staff to mis-sell credit cards, loans and insurance, a leaked email has revealed - just months after the bank was fined £28m for promoting a ruthless sales culture.

Advisers have accused the Personal Finance Society (PFS) of creating a "two-tier membership" after it emerged some will be left out of the new version of the organisation's adviser database and will not have the same details displayed on their profiles...

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True Potential has been invited to showcase its technology at New York City's FinovateFall 2014, a trade show dedicated to banking and financial technology.

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