Each of the nine members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted to hold interest rates at the historic low of 0.5% this month, minutes from their latest meeting show.

Skandia UK has launched what it calls a "risk discussion" app allowing advisers to assess a client's attitude to risk in a single meeting.

An adventure junkie financial adviser is looking to raise £2,500 for charity by running three marathons, cycling across the country and scaling a Russian mountain.

Advisers solely recommending risk-rated funds are opening themselves up to "danger", Skandia has warned.

An adviser has hit out at platform FundsNetwork for refusing to re-register a client's investments to a rival platform because the value of the transfer was less than £40,000.

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Last year's Aberdeen UK Platform Awards dinner raised more than £22,000 for the Help for Heroes charity, organiser CWC Research has announced.

Eight out of ten advisers could move to a restricted advice model after the retail distribution review (RDR), recent findings suggest.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) today ruled investors who lost money in an Integrity fund will be considered for compensation to the tune of £1.9m.

The Bank of England has held interest rates at 0.5% and resisted another round of quantitative easing amid tentative signs of an improvement in the economic outlook.