IFA

A fifth of IFAs expect to see a "significant" increase in the number and size of fines inflicted on the financial services sector over the next five years, according to research.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has cancelled the permissions of independent financial adviser Martin Richard Moseling, trading as Blenheim Financial Services, for failing to act in clients' interests.

Advisers should finalise and promote their auto-enrolment proposition now or they risk missing a "great opportunity", according to NEST.

Somerset-based Stafford House Investments (SHI) has completed its acquisition of the financial advisory business of AC Mole & Sons.

Eighty five per cent of over-55s said they preferred the "do it yourself" approach when it came to financial decisions, according to a survey.

A survey carried out by independent financial advice firm deVere has highlighted a trend in short-term financial planning among potential new clients for advisers.

Mid-market independent financial advisers could start to disappear in as little as three years' time as regulatory changes and market pressures start to bite, according to a senior figure at Openwork.

Bromsgrove-based independent financial advice firm AFH has acquired Somerset-based IFA Shape Financial in what marks the fourteenth acquisition by the firm since its flotation.

Independent financial advisers were described as "parasites" by a consultant at the Pensions and Benefits Show.

There is a huge and widening gulf between firms making outstanding profits and those losing money, according to research released today.