Rdr
11 May 2012
Bestinvest has undergone a structural review of the business which could result in job losses.
20 April 2012
Selling a product is one thing, selling advice is another.” That is one of two great lines the always-opinionated Clive Waller came up with a couple of weeks ago.
16 March 2012
Hector Sants’s shock decision to quit the FSA at the end of June brings to an end a fractious eight-year relationship with financial advisers.
27 February 2012
The FSA has finalised its guidance on when firms can (and can not) receive commission post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR).
20 February 2012
Guinness Asset Management has launched a new share class across its fund range, becoming the latest firm to gear up for RDR with the launch of a ‘clean fee’ structure.
05 December 2011
The Retail Distribution Review (RDR), and the subsequent enabling proposals, provide the UK with a unique opportunity to move towards a fairer and more transparent pricing and distribution model.
14 November 2011
Fidelity’s Ben Waterhouse tells Dan Jones how he is facing the challenges of his role as head of UK retail sales, with RDR pressures building on advisers.
07 November 2011
As the deadline to RDR draws ever closer, Legal & General Investments managing director Simon Ellis talks to Kyle Caldwell about plans to expand the group’s multi-asset suite and the inevitable rise of outsourcing.
31 October 2011
Kyle Caldwell talks to Ian Sayers, the director general of the Association of Investment Companies, about how closed-ended vehicles can fight their way into clients’ portfolios after 2012.
14 October 2011
Hello and welcome to my first issue as editor of Investment Week. I have recently moved over from editing Incisive Media’s sister publications Professional Adviser and IFAonline.co.uk, which have now been handed to deputy Scott Sinclair.
12 October 2011
Lawyers acting for the FSCS have sent IFAs who recommended their clients invest in Keydata - and who the FSCS has now paid compensation - letters of claim saying the scheme will pursue the firms for recovery of the money.
01 August 2011
Fidelity’s Gary Shaughnessy has criticised the FSA for delaying its decision on a proposed cash rebate ban in today's 'underwhelming' platform paper.
18 July 2011
The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) has called for a 12 month delay to the RDR to enable more advisers to reach Level 4, among a series of other concessions, but the FSA has flatly refused any negotiation on a change to its plans.
18 July 2011
The industry is split on the merits of the Treasury Select Committee's (TSC) key recommendation to delay the RDR for 12 months until 1 January 2014.
03 June 2011
Maybe RDR does not really matter at all. Perhaps everyone in the financial services sector and the accompanying industry of media commentators has got completely the wrong end of the stick.
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