Former HMRC assistant director joins AJ Bell

Hopkins (pictured) will oversee the technical resources team which supports advisers with complex product cases, as well as changing industry regulation.  He will also support AJ Bell's lobbying activity with both regulatory and government bodies, the firm said. Hopkins, who spent more than 10 years with the taxman, starts his new role with immediate effect, reporting to chief executive Andy Bell. While at HMRC Hopkins led the pension simplification project, which resulted in the rules that came into effect on 6 April 2006. The project sought to simplify the taxation of pensions...