Investment platform and SIPP provider AJ Bell has changed the terms on its Managed Portfolio Service funds to reduce risks and costs for advisers.

STM Group, the international financial services provider which owns Carey Pensions (now known as Options), is to make its chief operating officer Peter Marr redundant in the second half of the year as it downsizes its executive team.

A director of a Nottingham-based call centre has been banned from running a business for 8 years due to running an unregistered pension scheme.

The FCA has provisionally fined pension transfer financial adviser Geoffrey Edward Armin £1.28m for a number of advice failings.

Six Nucleus directors have stood down from the company today as the takeover of the business by James Hay is completed creating a platform managing £47bn in funds.

The Court of Appeal has upheld findings of breaches against illegal pension introducers Alexandra Associates (UK) Limited trading as Avacade Future Solutions (AA), and Craig and Lee Lummis in a case brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).