adviser firms

The Protection Review and the Personal Finance Society (PFS) will soon be announcing the first dates for independent protection training for advisers.

Simon Hudson, founder and CEO of Tenet Group, has stepped down.

LV= has launched a new version of its reference book; the "Little Book of Protection".

National IFA Moneygate has acquired London-based adviser Equus Independent Financial Management for an undisclosed sum.

Stakeholders within the life assurance market need to work together to tackle the ongoing problem of cancellation and persistency rates, a national IFA has urged.

IFA consolidator Perspective Financial Group has acquired Oxfordshire-based adviser firm McGrath Rathbone.

IFAs fall behind friends, family and the internet as the main source of financial advice while young people are especially disconnected from the advice process, new research has revealed.

Nucleus member firms are opening their doors to fellow advisers in a series of open days designed to showcase the benefits of belonging to an adviser-owned wrap.

Financial advisers in Australia have been warned any attempts to get around the country's equivalent of the retail distribution review (RDR) will not be tolerated by the regulator.

Advisers think the FSA's independent and restricted labels are "wrong" but the majority will remain whole of market after 2013, recent findings suggest.