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Our weekly heads-up on the key stories, events and other bits for professional advisers...

Old Mutual Wealth's (OMW) decision to launch a national advice firm has raised the spectre that the fund giant will leverage the mass of data it holds on its investors to poach clients from other advisers.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) could face paying out tens of millions of pounds linked to claims of bad advice to invest in film and property schemes, as an advice firm teeters on the brink of default.

Adviser network Intrinsic and its parent company Old Mutual Wealth (OMW) are to launch a national advice business aimed at the "underserved segments" of the market.

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Robo-advice should be embraced by advisers as a complementary tool to help them - and not a threat - according to chief executive of the Personal Finance Society Keith Richards.

The Financial Ombudsman Service needs to be reformed if robo-advice is to stand a chance of flourishing in the UK, a technology expert has told the regulator.