IFA

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has declared 21 investments firms in default, including a number of independent financial advisers and mortgage brokers.

Advisers must consider equity release if annuities are not enough for their clients, according to an equity release specialist.

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.