IFA

A Berkshire-based IFA is in the process of building an execution-only offering for existing clients with investable assets of £50,000 or less, but who no longer want to engage with the firm's advice process.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has cancelled the permissions of Somerset-based IFA firm Churchill Securities after it failed to co-operate with the regulator.

The UK needs about 5,000 extra financial advisers to cope with the rising demand for retirement advice, research from Standard Life concludes.

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.