adviser firms

A Staffordshire-based IFA is launching a series of financial guides to help clients prepare for a raft of new fiscal measures set to be unveiled by the coalition government.

Ashcourt Rowan has appointed Jeremy Rance to join its executive committee as director of planning.

National advice firm Moneygate has signed a £50,000 deal to become the official IFA to the Scottish Golf Union (SGU) and its 240,000 members.

A hung parliament will have a detrimental impact on the progress of the RDR and stall the UK's economic recovery, say advisers.

Investors have been left trying to steer their own way through the financial turmoil of the past year as advisers fail to regularly review customers' investments, research suggests.

Applewood Wealth Management is launching an online acquisition agency to help IFAs looking to buy or sell businesses in the run up to the RDR.

A Surrey-based financial adviser has been exposed in the tabloids as a love-rat after marrying a girl he met in Las Vegas and keeping it secret from his girlfriend.

RDR rules stipulating trail commission be passed on to the client when they switch adviser will "devalue" IFA businesses in the eyes of consolidators, Buckles CEO Nigel Speirs says.

Moneygate Group has acquired two financial businesses and is targeting a further three deals over the next 12 months as part of a four-year expansion plan.

A financial adviser has been handed a suspended 10-month prison sentence for mortgage fraud following an investigation which began as an illegal drugs probe.