Shift to defensive assets urges Architas
Architas has warned that investors should begin shifting towards defensive assets before volatility strikes markets in the latter half of 2017.
Architas has warned that investors should begin shifting towards defensive assets before volatility strikes markets in the latter half of 2017.
The UK’s Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) received 59% more complaints about self-invested personal pensions (Sipps) in the first quarter of the 2017/2018 financial year compared to the same period a year before.
The former managing director of defunct Jersey-based IFA firm Lumiere Wealth, Chris Byrne, will likely stand trial in summer 2018 for, among other things, fraud and knowingly making misleading or deceptive promises to clients.
The UK tax office has recently updated its rules for transferring any unused portion of basic and additional IHT thresholds when the first person in a marriage or civil partnership dies.
Following raids by HM Revenue & Customs on Newcastle United and West Ham and with over 40 players and 12 teams under review, football clubs in the UK are taking a more proactive approach to tax.
The gap between stated and adjusted profits for FTSE 100 companies is at a 10-year high, according to AJ Bell which has raised fears firms are intentionally “muddying the waters”.
More than 500 people signed up to the Chartered Insurance Institute’s (CII) pension transfers qualification in the first week of its launch on the back of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) tightening advice requirements for the transfer of safeguarded benefits.
The Pensions Regulator is stepping up how it uses its enforcement powers, which includes financial penalties, and expanding who it considers to be a professional trustee.
A couple who claimed Coutts mismanaged their discretionary portfolios have won a fight for compensation after taking their case to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).
The formation of investment giant Standard Life Aberdeen has been finalised, the company confirmed on Monday.
A man who had to pay additional taxes after losing his lifetime allowance (LTA) protection on his pension plans was not poorly advised by the financial planning arm of UK accountancy firm Mazars, the ombudsman has found.
A man was arrested in London on Thursday on suspicion of helping to set up a boiler room scam that was used to persuade people to invest in a non-existent crypto currency.