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Cofunds has appointed Stephen Wynne-Jones, formerly of SSP, as head of marketing operations.

Is past claims performance a guide to the future or will the FOS work on transparency be valuable to the industry? Gill Salton asks.

I am getting more and more frustrated with the gloom and doom being espoused in all circles financial, whether involving the recent turmoil in world stockmarkets or the long awaited housing correction.

If ever there was a truism about business, it's that businesses don't plan to fail; they simply just fail to plan.

Scottish Widows has pulled its protection quotations from industry portals, prompting concerns it too has effectively exited the protection market following Standard Life's departure earlier today.

Adviser tech-solutions provider 1st will launch three new modules within its Adviser Office product, enabling online commission reconciliation, valuations and suitability enhancements.

The Exchange, Vertex's online services provider, has launched a client management tool for members of IFA network Tenet.

More than one in five advisers spend over 10 hours a week chasing providers on case progress, an IFAonline poll suggests.

2Plan, the new national IFA firm, has linked up with The Exchange to offer the Exweb platform to its advisers.

Prudential has joined The Exchange's Exweb service enabling more than 25,000 advisers to access client quotations from Prudential through the online portal.