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Retirement Planner has launched of a series of breakfast briefings aimed at advisers operating in the retirement planning space.

In the latest Retirement Planner poll we gauge opinion on pensions minister Steve Webb's plan to allow retirees to sell their annuity contract for cash.

Listed advice firm Lighthouse Group has teamed with a discretionary investment manager to create a 'cost-effective' focused investment advice service to be delivered online.

The majority shareholder in a student property fund sold by advisers to retail investors called for the fund to be liquidated after redemptions were suspended for more than a year.

Steve Webb remains "open minded but sceptical" about private income protection insurers becoming involved in the state welfare system.

Former international cricketer Douglas Lockhart has joined Tilney Bestinvest as an associate director.

A quarter of consumers plan to make paying down their debt a priority in the coming year, research by a financial services firm has found.

Incisive Media, publishers of Investment Week, Professional Adviser and a range of other titles, has agreed a refinancing deal which sees private equity firm Alchemy Partners take a majority stake in the business.

Advisers could lose thousands of pounds in probate fees as platform funds are being converted to clean share classes, which don't support ongoing trail payments upon client death.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Association of Member-Directed Pension Schemes (AMPS) "are not on speaking terms" after last year's SIPP capital adequacy showdown - leaving providers with little or no support in the fight against pension...