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Pension providers must ask clients a set of key questions before they access their pension pot and should also highlight the benefits of regulated advice, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said.

National advice firm Succession has bought Reading-based adviser Finch Financial Services for £3m, marking the completion of its 12th acquisition.

Distribution Technology (DT), a provider of risk profiling tools to hundreds of adviser firms, has introduced high yield bonds to eight of its ten risk models for the first time.

Retired Premier League players are among more than 100 footballers who face financial ruin as a result of demands from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for what it has said is unpaid tax, but the sports stars said the fault lies with their advisers.

Left-wing anti-austerity party Syriza has secured a commanding election victory in Greece, setting the scene for a stand-off between the country and its creditors.

Nine Aberdeen funds have made Tilney Bestinvest's 'dog list' of underperforming funds, as the SWIP acquisition and a US underweight in its global funds dragged on performance.

The government's guidance guarantee providers will not be properly staffed by April and will lack the right level of expertise to deliver the service, a pensions expert has warned.

The Post Office is to amalgamate its range of financial products under a new brand in its bid to become a leading 'challenger' in UK financial services.

More than half of a 'representative sample' of workers questioned in a recent survey said they were unaware the government's pension reforms had happened.

HMRC's crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion by people who it calls "mass affluent" saw an income boost of 60% in the last year, a new report has claimed.