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Aviva has added discretionary fund manager London & Capital's (L&C's) 13 portfolios to its platform.

Axa is considering allowing small firms access to its Self Investor service, which lets advisers provide a restricted direct-to-consumer proposition to clients.

Retirement Planner's round up of the top pension stories this week.

Awareness of auto-enrolment among intermediaries has improved since 2012, but knowledge gaps still remain among small business advisers, The Pensions Regulator (TPA)has said.

In this week's quick fire poll we ask: Would you like to see 'defined ambition' pensions?

Wealth manager The Inspire Group has said it plans to acquire some 20 IFA businesses over the next 18 months, with the aim of accumulating assets in excess of £1bn and making it a major player in the IFA sector.

Sir Mervyn King, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, has written to a small business owner to offer his sympathies after the man's own bank refused him a loan.

Just Retirement has called on government to it make compulsory in the incoming Care and Support bill that local authorities refer care funders to regulated financial advisers.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has told the country's 50 leading payday lenders that they have 12 weeks to change their business practices or risk losing their licenses.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has launched a joint investigation with Essex Police into complaints in relation to the Harlequin group.