Adviser / Broking

The number of advising staff working in financial advice firms fell 9% last year, according to figures put together for the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA).

PruProtect has launched an email campaign service for intermediaries.

Bupa is "very pleased" with how its intermediary-sold individual PMI pilot phase is going after pulling its previous proposition last summer.

The Financial Services Authority has banned an independent financial adviser from carrying out regulated services because he failed to pay his regulation fees.

Insurers were both praised and damned in this year's speech by Lifesearch chairman Tom Baigrie.

Personal Touch will be launching a legal proposition for adviser members, with plans set to get underway in the third quarter of this year.

A shocked chartered financial planner has been forced to consider a re-brand after discovering his firm's website has been fraudulently cloned.

Legal & General has said the insurance group is unlikely to bid for Sesame Bankhall, widely-believed to be the largest mortgage network in the UK.

Networks Openwork and Sesame saw complaints against them at the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) rise in the second half of last year, with Sesame receiving over 90% more claims.

The whole auto-enrolment piece has been structured without the intermediary in mind, despite a clear function for advisers in communicating the message, Capita said at the Employee Benefits Connect 2013 conference today.