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Aegon is preparing to sell off parts of its UK-based operations, Sky News reports.

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has reconfigured its management team following a strategic review that led to the demise of its investment advice network earlier in the year.

The Society of Later Life Advisers (SOLLA) has created an industry standard for retirement advisers.

Assets under administration up 18%

Wealth manager Mattioli Woods has bought advice firm Taylor Patterson for £8.3m, adding a further £640m to its £5.4bn of client assets.

Five things paraplanners want from advisers

Pensions minister and Conservative peer Ros Altmann has been expelled by the Labour Party after it emerged she had been a member for the past 18 months.

Nutmeg is seeking a "resourceful and forward thinking" financial adviser to lead its expansion into regulated advice.

An expat adviser a couple met when they retired to Spain has trapped their £380,000 pension pot in a collection of high risk problem-laden unregulated investments, leaving them in danger of losing everything.

Introducing a long-stop to financial advice liability is the only way a properly functioning mass-market model can develop, MPs have been told.