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IFA and wealth manager Gemini Wealth Management has acquired the pension and investment business from a fellow advisory firm after it shut up shop due to the "increasing costs" put on small firms.

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has warned the industry could yet lose more small firms as advisers say they are lacking confidence in their business models.

It takes two: Dancing the adviser/client technology tango

Network and support services firm Tenet has asked platforms for clarity on their legacy commission switch-off plans but said it is "confident" advisers are "on top of" the process.

How to survive and thrive in the customer service era

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) chief executive Martin Wheatley has once again thrown his weight behind the idea of computerised advice, as he predicted a financial services future shaped by software developers, computer programmers and economists....

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has come under fire from an adviser who believes it is failing in its duty to "expose wrong-doing and enforce 'best practice'".

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a guide to how it will measure advisers' disclosure efforts against its expectations, after it detected "unacceptable" shortcomings in its latest post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR) work.

Asset managers are likely to engage in a "fundamental rethink" of their retail strategies as more customers go direct in future, according to analysts at Barclays.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has made it a priority to help advisers innovate their business models to reach the middle market, chief executive Martin Wheatley said on Thursday.