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Affluent Financial Planning has hired a paraplanner as part of plans to prepare for sweeping changes under the RDR.

The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority is set to launch a myth busting programme to explain how the national pension saving scheme will work from 2012.

Fidelity International has upgraded its website for IFAs to include a recovery indicator and additional graphs and presentations about its products.

Stroud & Swindon Building Society chief executive David Hill is stepping down at the end of August after nine years at the mutual to pursue other interests.

VAM Funds has launched the Luxembourg-domiciled VAM Asia Fixed Income fund to allow investors to exploit opportunities in the Asian fixed income market where yields on investment grade bonds are averaging 6% annually.

Equity release advisers must invest in advertising to attract business as more customers are choosing products based on adverts, research suggests.

Asking prices are falling this month as sellers drop prices to more realistic levels in the traditional housing market summer lull, according to the latest index from property website Rightmove.

Enhanced annuities pay out an average 22% more than standard annuities in annual retirement income, research suggests.

Charges on inheritance tax (IHT) payments made after the six month deadline are increasing, the Treasury has announced.

The FSA's efforts to strengthen its supervisory and enforcement work by recruiting hundreds more staff have been thrown off course by the Conservative party's plan to disband the regulator, according to the Financial Times.