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Momentum buys adviser-only model portfolios from London & Capital
Portfolios for UK financial advisers
Revealed: All the winners at the Professional Adviser Awards 2016
Best of the best honoured at PA Awards
Capita pays off Arch cru investors to escape court ruling
Investors get secret deal
Old Mutual Wealth's senior executive duo to exit
COO and customer director to step down
What do we know about the new FCA chief?
Andrew Bailey to take over in July
AJ Bell plans launch of passives range following acquisition
Increase asset management presence
FCA finds 60% of wealth managers' portfolios close to unsuitable
'Substantial' improvements needed
RBS and Standard Chartered 'weakest' links in BoE stress tests
Further £10bn needs to be put aside
Autumn Statement 2015: Stamp duty to rise by 3% on BTL and second homes
Increase comes in from April 2016
HBOS report damns FSA for being 'too trusting'
Damning verdict on regulator
FCA fines and bans ex-Aviva Investors analyst for 'cherry picking'
Fined for exploiting weaknesses in trading systems
Rogue ex-Barings trader Leeson launches risk management firm
Launches Risk Team with former banker
FCA wants to extend commission ban to P2P investing
Ensure consumer protection
Another name change? FCA looks again at advice labels
Regulator seeks industry views
Fraudsters behind £60m Arck investment scam sentenced to 12 years
Three-year battle
Bestinvest founder Spiers unveils simplified advice service
New hires for launch
Rathbones CEO: We'll avoid industry's adviser takeover mistakes
Rathbones to buy out Vision Group
FCA wants pension rich excluded from sophisticated investor loophole
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) want to completely exclude pension wealth from high net worth investor (HNWI) calculations in order to prevent retirees losing their nest egg in high risk sophisticated investments.
Hargreaves Lansdown moves to restricted advice and overhauls charges
Groundwork for telephone-based proposition
Regulator fines IFA £20k for Keydata advice
JJFS did not take reasonable care
Shadow chancellor to push for 'Robin Hood' tax on trading
Osborne has fought the tax
UK interest rate could need further cut, BoE chief economist warns
UK interest rates could need to be cut further to support growth and return inflation to target, the Bank of England's chief economist has said.
Old Mutual Wealth poaches Investec's Dale for adviser sales role
Dale to join in November
Labour leadership winner Corbyn names shadow chancellor
Shadow cabinet members revealed
Aberdeen AM acquires DFM and platform Parmenion
Strategy to grow Solutions business
'Adopt an investor' plea as life settlements fund to pay out £56m sale proceeds
Dollar denominated assets reach £83m
FCA launches follow-up work on annuity mis-selling investigation
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is investigating thousands of annuities sold since 2008 to see if they were unsuitable for savers.
Supreme Court backs FCA's tough stance on collectives in landmark case
The highest court in the UK has backed the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in a landmark case that could have far-reaching consequences for risky ventures.
Bestinvest founder Spiers launches high-end investment service
EQ Investors, the boutique wealth manager led by Bestinvest founder John Spiers, has launched an investment service for high-net-worth individuals, companies and charities with over £750,000 to invest.
Does the govt want to resurrect banks' advice role?
Does the govt want to resurrect banks' advice role?
MPC interest rate hawks tamed by Greek crisis
Hawkish members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) keen to begin edging up interest rates were cowed by the recent turmoil in Greece, its latest meeting minutes reveal.
Jupiter hands £60m investment trust business to Hargreaves Lansdown
Jupiter is handing its £60m investment trust savings and ISA businesses to Hargreaves Lansdown to administer, in a deal for an undisclosed sum.
Adviser profitability, assets and confidence all on the up - survey
Business is booming for advisers, according to a poll that signals increasing profitability and confidence in the sector two years after the rule change doomsayers said would herald its demise.
FSCS legal team awarded for pursuit of Keydata advisers
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) legal team that helped recover some of the hundreds of millions of pounds it paid out over the collapse of Keydata from financial advisers has been given an industry award for its efforts.
Platform pricing report: Average costs cut by 18% vs. pre-RDR
Average investors have seen their platform costs tumble by almost a fifth in the last five years, according to research by the lang cat, but advisers are not favouring the cheaper options.
Sanlam netted £10m from Intrinsic stake sale
Sanlam UK made £10m from the sale of its stake in advice network Intrinsic to Old Mutual Wealth.
Aviva and Friends Life create £45m emergency fund for Sesame
Debt-laden network Sesame has been given access to a £45m bailout fund by its parents Aviva and Friends Life.
Cowley challenges 'tired' fund model with new advisory firm
Former Old Mutual bond manager Stewart Cowley has launched a new venture providing investment advice and portfolio management to advisers and fund groups.
FCA chief Wheatley nets £701k after 15% pay rise
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) chief executive Martin Wheatley saw his total pay deal from the industry-funded regulator rise by 15% last year to £701,000.
FCA hires enforcement chief from Hong Kong regulator
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has looked east for its new head of enforcement, bringing in the man who currently heads up the same division for the Hong Kong regulator.
FCA calls on advisers to stockpile earnings in case of complaints
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) could up the amount of easily accessible cash advisers have to hold a percentage of their yearly investment advice earnings, in a bid to stop firms failing in the face of a "normal" level of complaints.
RBS preps for goverment stake sale with shareholder vote
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is preparing shareholders for the government to sell down its 79% stake in the lender by asking them to vote on costs related to a sale at its annual general meeting.
FOS reveals annuities are new complaints battleground
Annuities have become the new focus for complaints according to figures from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), a year after the product was publicly abandoned by the Chancellor.
FCA warns of cold calling fake regulator fraudster
A man pretending to be from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is cold calling people in an attempt to defraud them, the regulator has warned.
IFA poaches director from Fidelity
An IFA based in Plymouth has hired a head of advisory services from industry giant Fidelity.
Multi-asset survivors: Six funds still widely-held a decade later
Multi-asset survivors: The six funds still loved after a decade
Fraudster alert: FCA warns on four investment firm clones
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a warning to investors about four firms that are unauthorised clones of legitimate businesses.
FCA approval times for growing firms up 85% in two years
Firms trying to expand into new business areas are having to wait 85% longer for Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) authorisation than two years ago.