Adviser / Broking

The Financial Skills Partnership (FSP) is to launch a plan to train 150 unemployed graduates as financial advisers.

Protection will be the biggest growth area for a third of advisers, a sentiment report has shown.

Insurer Legal & General (L&G) said it is ready to deliver a restricted advice solution for its distribution partners after announcing an increase in half-year profits.

Allianz UK boss Andrew Torrance has attributed the insurer's on-going growth to its "continuity of strategy and approach" with brokers in the market place.

A Bradford-based financial adviser has been jailed after a court found him guilty of stealing almost £400,000 from four vulnerable clients over a 16-year period.

The man who signed rock band The Killers is now hoping to crack the insurance market with a new social media-based release for brokers.

Medicash is targeting brokers to expand business in London and the south east.

Financial advisers working in banks will have a tougher time than IFAs persuading clients to part with a fee for their services, research suggests.

Multi-tie mortgage and financial advice network Openwork has made several redundancies, including mortgage relationship manager Karen Hedges, as part of a cost-saving initiative.

An increasing number of independent financial advisers are facing problems with cash flow, according to research by ING Direct.