On the back of strong criticism over how AMP has treated clients, Australia’s largest advice firm has launched a training and development programme to “meet the growing demand for high-quality financial advisers”.
The Pension Regulator (TPR) has appointed Dalriada Trustees to clean up a £21m defunct pension scheme.
Adviser Abacus appoints Hong Kong office lead, Sanne names Jersey client services director from UBS and former UK pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann joins a fintech firm.
A UK law firm at the heart of a mis-selling case against an introducer, a financial adviser and two Sipp providers has said it now represents 210 clients.
Of the advisers joining deVere Group this year, 31% have previously worked for the company, figures released on Thursday reveal.
The UK’s Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), which helps consumers when authorised financial services firms fail, is battling to recover money paid out to investors in a fund that went into liquidation but has since resumed making distributions.
Ecowarriors could have double the reason to celebrate the global push to eradicate plastics after Legal & General Investment Management highlighted the negative impact lower demand will have on the oil and petrochemical sectors.
Utmost Wealth Solutions will extend its operations to Latin America, the Middle East and Far East following its acquisition of Generali Worldwide.
The British Virgin Islands is now home to the Bank of Asia, a fully digital, cross-border bank looking to address the growing needs of offshore companies, individuals and high net worth individuals.
Standard Life Investment’s Global Absolute Return Strategy (Gars) has admitted prepping too early for the end of the cycle and vented about the level of media attention on its multi-billion pound outflows.
Germany’s Allianz has completed the acquisition of Ensure Insurance in Nigeria, taking its presence up to 17 countries across Africa.
Financial advisers in the Emirates could be caught in a ban on telesales, if a ruling by the country’s property regulator is copied for financial services.
