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Restricted national advisory group Sandringham Financial Partners has selected Axa Wealth's Elevate platform and its multi-manager proposition Architas for its panel.

It is "unrealistic, uneconomic and unnecessary" to expect those approaching retirement to take regulated financial advice, according to Hargreaves Lansdown.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has promised to set up an "annuities task force" and conduct a wholesale review of pensions decumulation.

Restricted adviser network Openwork has put expansion plans on hold shortly after reporting its first ever profitable year, and will instead focus on the quality of its operation.

There are many traps that investors can unwittingly fall into. Investor website rplan outlines some of the most common mistakes:

The maximum amount of money drawdown pensioners can withdraw from their retirement pot is set to rise next month.

As the bulls predict a positive 2014 for the UK equity market, are you better off opting for a tracker fund or an active manager?

Troy Asset Management CEO Sebastian Lyon has pledged to retain his 'natural caution' in the face of an increasingly optimistic atmosphere for equity investment.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is not seeking to pile more pressure on adviser firms already under financial strain by investigating payments they may receive from providers, its director responsible for supervising advisers said.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined a number of good and bad practices in its consultation paper on inducements after it found "serious failings" among advisory firms in complying with the regulator's conflict of interest rule.