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Fairstone has added more than £2bn of client assets under management after acquiring eight firms in the first three months of 2026.

There is still a long way to go until the UK has a pensions dashboard, but it is something worth pursuing, according to AJ Bell.

Financial planning firms are increasing investment in technology, but advisers have warned that poor adoption risks creating operational inefficiencies rather than solving them.

The do-it-yourself (DIY) investor — typically a middle-aged, affluent man who managed a portfolio of shares from a desktop platform — has evolved from a decade ago, according to Boring Money.

One of the UK’s biggest insurers has applied for targeted support permissions and is awaiting regulatory approval, FT Adviser can reveal.

The Verve Foundation has reopened applications for its new talent programme, a fully-funded training initiative designed to bring fresh talent into financial services.

Fidelius, the Bath-based advisory firm, and Lawrence Stephens, the London-based law firm, have launched a joint venture called LS Wealth.

A master trust-led steering group, Pathfinder, has been set up to explore ways to improve pension transfers for savers and support a more scalable transfer process across the workplace pensions market.

Only 9 per cent of the UK working population is on track to achieve a comfortable retirement, as Pensions UK updates its Retirement Living Standards.

The Chartered Insurance Institute has apologised to an adviser after its customer service provided incorrect information with regards to his CPD.