Wealth manager and SIPP provider Mattioli Woods has pushed back a major deal to takeover £1.6bn AUM Ludlow Wealth Management.

The owner of a Bucks IFA firms says the increasing regulatory burden is one of the key reasons behind the £1.8m sale of his firm to Mattioli Woods.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has ordered that Cambridgeshire SIPP provider DAC Pensions Limited be placed into insolvency after the firm accepted business from unauthorised introducers without the proper vetting required by the FCA.

The Money Purchase Annual Allowance (MPAA) poses hidden risk to over 55s who have accessed their pension early due to the Coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report.

Some 8m people are planning a DIY approach to retirement and planning to avoid professional financial advice but admit they do not know how to avoid running out of money in retirement, according to a new study.

Investment and retirement platform consultancy the lang cat has recruited Tom McPhail, the high profile former Hargreaves Lansdown pension spokesman and head of policy, to be its new director of public affairs.