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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is reminding advisory businesses to beware "self-defeating transactions" when totting up the total charges clients are being asked to pay.

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The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has revived its joint scheme with Citizens Advice and plans to roll out pro bono advice across 100 of the organisation's branches with the "capacity to expand further".

Advisers have accused the Personal Finance Society (PFS) of creating a "two-tier membership" after it emerged some will be left out of the new version of the organisation's adviser database and will not have the same details displayed on their profiles...

Pensions minister Steve Webb and JP Morgan chief market strategist and ex-BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders have been confirmed as two of the keynote speakers at this year's Personal Finance Society (PFS) national conference.

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The Personal Finance Society (PFS) and Tax Incentivised Savings Association (TISA) are consulting on a protocol designed to provide clarity surrounding the treatment of client relationships between a firm and individual advisers.

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has said it wants to put accredited financial advisers "at the public's fingertips" with the relaunch of its adviser directory.

Personal Finance Society chief executive Keith Richards talks to Helen Morrissey about advisers' role in delivering the guidance guarantee and how the Budget could herald a new approach to long-term saving.

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