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Mattioli Woods is to acquire advice firm Boyd Coughlan in a £7m deal and has also announced plans to raise a more than £18m from shareholders to fund further growth.

Five outstanding retirement advice firms were honoured at the Retirement Planner Awards 2015.

Rupert Harrison, former chief of staff to Chancellor George Osborne, is joining BlackRock to help develop its retirement proposition.

Aberdeen Asset Management is to partner with pensions consultancy Hymans Robertson for a service which will see it use the firm's technology to target direct investors for the first time.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a paper clarifying its stance on how advisers will be held liable when dealing with insistent clients.

The Conservatives have promised 'no new taxes' this Parliament, but George Osborne's 8 July Budget will still contain tax issues for wealth managers to consider, according to law firm Payne Hicks Beach,

How we are negotiating central bank challenges

The government has pledged to keep the triple lock on state pension increases until 2020 and to leave pensioner benefits such as the winter fuel allowance untouched.

An annual investor study has revealed concerning attitudes to risk, key threats to retirement portfolios, and a potential fallout from the increasing use of alternative assets.