Independent Financial Advice

Former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan has launched a financial advice firm to serve his fellow rockers.

IFAs will see rising demand for advice on enhanced transfer value (ETV) exercises as companies improve their cash-for-pension offers, KPMG said.

Half of consumers who have bought a regulated financial product from a bank or building society are unaware of the level or existence of charges for it, research suggests.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is pressing ahead with three points raised by complaints about the Money Advice Service (MAS).

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) is to extend membership rights beyond IFAs as it adapts to upcoming regulatory changes.

The trade body for independent advisers is to extend membership beyond IFAs in a move which represents a radical volte-face from its original manifesto but which it said was necessary in a changing advisory landscape.

IFA firm Heath Lambert will trade as Gallagher Heath from today following its acquisition by insurance brokerage giant Gallagher & Co.

Advisers, providers and elderly charities welcomed the Dilnot report, but urged the government not to kick the recommendations into the long grass.

Lighthouse Financial Advice, part of the Lighthouse Group, has agreed a three-year deal to provide financial advice to members of The Association of Heads and Deputes (AHDS), which represents senior teaching staff and school leaders in Scotland.

Karen Barrett, chief executive of Unbiased.co.uk, tells the BBC what consumers can expect from upcoming changes in the financial advice sector...