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Major indices across Europe traded lower on Wednesday, reversing gains made yesterday as the IMF cut Chinese growth forecasts.

A former Co-op Bank executive has received £350,000 from Enterprise Ventures' North West Fund for Venture Capital to market his new software product for IFAs.

IFA acquirer, Bellpenny, has completed the purchase of Cheltenham-based Financial Planning firm, The County Partnership.

Thomas Miller Investment has launched a low cost model portfolio service to be offered through financial advisers.

Verona Smith, marketing director of Cofunds, is to join The Platforum after exiting the fund supermarket in the wake of its takeover by Legal & General.

Advisers have seen the number of complaints against them soar over the past year, however figures show that more than half of the cases were dropped by the ombudsman.

Bloomsbury Financial Planning partner Jason Butler on why he thinks the best boutique advisory firms will pull away from the rest and mop up the majority of the UK market within five years...

Tenet has developed an online anti-money laundering service to combat fraud, eliminate paperwork and enable advisers to process transactions more efficiently.

Crispin Henderson, the former CEO of Threadneedle who stepped back from the role in March, is to retire from the industry at the end of the week.

Invesco Perpetual's Neil Woodford, manager of the group's £25bn suite of UK income products, has described his heavy underweight position to the mining sector as one of the biggest drivers behind his outperformance over the past year.