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The Treasury wants to hear from financial advisers as it published a call for evidence as part of its review into the role played by the Money Advice Service (MAS).

Reducing the working week to four days would help to combat work-related stress and the mental ill-health associated with overwork or lack of work, one of Britain's leading doctors says.

A retired IFA currently battling an Ombudsman payment protection insurance claim dating from the 1980s says the lack of a complaints long-stop for advisers is "crazily unfair" and is pushing his MP to intervene.

Engage Mutual has launched an updated ‘funeral calculator' on its adviser community site, enabling intermediaries to access up-to-date cremation and burial costs.

The Disability Benefit Consortium has launched its 2014 Big Benefits Survey and is looking for input.

There is overwhelming support amongst protection advisers for the introduction e-signatures to speed up underwriting of products such as life cover, critical illness and income protection.

House prices in London have risen by more than a quarter in the last year, with some now describing the capital's property market as ‘unsustainable'.

Paul Evans, the group CEO of Axa UK, has been nominated to replace outgoing Association of British Insurers (ABI) chairman Tidjane Thiam.

Sun Life Direct is to rebrand as Sun Life, with ambitions to become the UK's leading direct-to-consumer financial services brand.

Business volumes in financial services were up in the three months to June fueling optimism in the industry, despite an unexpected fall in profitability, according to a survey by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and PwC.