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The Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB) has named Barry Horner as its board chairman of the FPSB council for 2014.

Provider LV= is offering a 5% discount on all income protection (IP) applications until 30 November.

Concerns about advisers piling into commission-paying products ahead of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) have proven unfounded, according to the experience of one provider.

The past 12 months have been "particularly challenging" for RSM Tenon's financial management arm, according to the chief executive Chris Merry.

Most clients go to an adviser primarily for practical reasons but many value the emotional reassurance the process brings them, research from Standard Life has found.

Suffolk Life has introduced three more discretionary fund manager (DFM) partners to SimSIPP wrapper.

Square One Financial Planning has developed a service to advise clients on their options around long-term care funding.

Ascentric has appointed Philip Gilder and Jason Owen to its propositions team.

Just Retirement has reported record sales of annuities and equity release mortgages totalling almost £1.5bn and increased its operating profit by 15.7% to £87.1m.

The maximum amount savers can put in an Isa is expected to rise to about £11,532 from next April, following rises in the cost of living, according to reports.