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Retirement Planner has launched its first awards event to recognise high standards of advice in the retirement planning sector.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has led a House of Commons defeat of a "deeply flawed" opposition amendment on charges in the Pensions Bill.

Providers purchasing tables at awards ceremonies and inviting advisers to sit on them will likely not be in breach of the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA's) requirements on inducements, it has confirmed.

A total of 67 of Sesame's near 2,200 member firms have decided to leave the network following its decision to operate as a restricted advice business, group chairman John Cowan has said.

Progress on the annuities market, charges and defined ambition (DA) may have "stalled", the Work and Pensions Select Committee says.

Friends Life is to pull a further £15bn of assets from F&C Asset Management by the end of the year, as it awards several mandates to a new investment manager.

Friends Life has reported a "disappointing" £19m loss for Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) in 2013.

Wealth management group Succession is launching a ‘lite' version of its platform for clients with less than £50,000 of investable assets.

Clive Cowdery, founder of The Resolution Group, and John Tiner, its CEO, have announced they will not stand for re-election as non-executive directors of the group at May's annual general meeting.

London-based IFA Westminster Wealth Management has embarked on a joint venture with business mentoring service ActionCOACH, gaining access to the company's 1,000 plus entrepreneurial clients.