Financial services

The FSA is set to introduce Sipp regulation this year which will mean more organisations can provide personal pensions, potentially opening up the Sipp market to more competition

Despite the abandonment of proposals to allow tax-efficient investment in residential property and exotics via Sipps, the number of investors taking out these pensions has greatly increased

More and more investors will put money into Sipps over the coming years but the introduction of regulation will ultimately result in less choice for investors

The FSA's follow up consultation paper on the listing rules that apply to investment entities has wo...

adviser groups are becoming more aggressive when negotiating the price of deals

With the widely recognised power of the Financial Ombudsman Scheme, reinforced by the high profile o...

Contracts for difference allow an investor to build up a significant holding without disclosing it, which means other shareholders might not be aware of activity which could influence the share price

The FSA moved to widen the derivatives market, giving retail investors access to the sector directly...

Fidelity FundsNetwork is to launch a with-profits review service in early 2007. The FundsNetwork...

The chairman harks back to a time when there were no rules at all in the investment game