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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has expressed concerns about the quality of advice around firms' use of 'centralised' investment solutions after a thematic review flagged widespread failings at some firms.

Bluefin Corporate Consulting is merging with Capita Hartshead after being sold by its parent company AXA to Capita for £50m.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) must issue a consultation paper on advisers' use of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) as a matter of urgency, according to financial services consultancy Aim Two Three.

An independent financial adviser in Wales has been chosen to carry the Olympic Torch through his village as it tours the United Kingdom ahead of the 2012 Games.

A sixth of this year's retirees plan to depend entirely on the state pension but few know how much they will actually get, Prudential research has found.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is to levy financial advisers for an extra £38m as it begins making part-payments to Arch Cru investors with eligible claims against failed IFAs.

In this week's quick fire poll we ask: Could pre-funded long-term care insurance products come back into fashion if they had an annuity underpin?

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

Speaking at last week's Henry Stewart conference on SIPPs and retirement options, John Moret, principal of MoretoSIPPs, said the industry's inability to speak with one voice was a concern in the face of FSA scrutiny and well-publicised examples of SIPP...

SIPP providers are being increasingly targeted for "loan buddy" business, a prime vehicle for pension leakage, warns Andrew Roberts, chairman of Association of Member Directed Pension Schemes (AMPS.)