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The PFS has launched an independent Financial Vulnerability Taskforce with the aim of supporting the profession to better recognise and address the various forms of consumer vulnerability, improve client outcomes and increase access to financial advice.

Since the UK formally left the European Union (EU) at the end of 2020, the PFS has been reminding members of the agreement the professional body has in place in partnership with other awarding bodies across Europe for advisers who still want to practise in the EU.

The PFS is introducing a new diversity and inclusion requirement for employers who use the Aspire apprenticeship scheme.

Financial advisers have revealed the greatest challenges they face to their profitability in 2021.

More than eight out of 10 financial advisers would recommend their profession to a friend who had been made redundant due to Covid-19.

The PFS will continue to tackle “unfinished business on the regulatory front” and push for a second Financial Advice Market Review (FAMR) in 2021.

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has appointed three new engagement board member roles this year to represent the voice of the membership during board discussions and decision-making.

Six out of 10 financial advisers suffered depression, anxiety, emotional distress or another mental health condition during the Covid-19 pandemic.

If you or your firm has redundant technology or can offer new technology, please help the PFS achieve our aim of delivering 10,000 computers to help children whose education has been impacted by Covid-19.

Only one in 10 of us have or will make provision for care by our 60s, despite becoming aware of the need to fund later-life care as early as our 30s, new research shows.