IFA

The Money Advice Service (MAS) referred just 0.2% of its 1.3 million users to regulated financial advice last year, it has been revealed.

A new website called The Retirement Academy has been launched to help advisers with retirement queries and research in the approach to RDR.

Dentons Pension Management has launched a new technical service to help advisers with SIPP and SSAS queries.

A Bradford-based financial adviser has been jailed after a court found him guilty of stealing almost £400,000 from four vulnerable clients over a 16-year period.

An IFA who was sacked after an allegation that she drunkenly abused a client has won her two-year unfair dismissal battle with her former employer and been handed £25,000 compensation.

Fiona Murphy asks IFAs how government austerity measures have affected clients' retirement planning.

IFAs expect DIY investing to rocket post the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), but the number that think this will cause problems for their clients has fallen year on year, according to research.

A key Lighthouse shareholder has urged others to vote against the group's proposal to delist from AIM, arguing that concessions made in a statement this morning do not make a 'jot of difference' to the situation.

The leading accountants' trade body is to redraft its code of ethics and allow members to refer clients to restricted advisers on a case-by-case basis after the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

The managing director of James Hay has apologised to ex-Honister advisers for a ‘heavy handed' letter sent direct to their clients indicating they could appoint a new adviser while theirs awaited re-authorisation.