Financial services

The Financial Services Practitioner Panel has begun a survey to find out how successfully the FSA is...

The introduction of statements for money purchase schemes in the UK will improve public understanding of such plans and will help advisers calculate an individual's pension needs more precisely

Most independent financial advisers groan inwardly when the word compliance is mentioned. But as com...

Many advisers feel there is no logic to the FSA's proposal requiring independent intermediaries to employ a defined payment agreement while allowing tied agents to charge commission

'Of course, I've always maintained there's no place for legal action in the investment industry,' li...

regulator to publish seven consultation papers covering areas such as governance of with-profits, role of actuaries and inheritance tax

The FSA has begun consultations on a proposed common framework for the way in which authorised comp...

Tenet and iir groups organising events on compliance and regulation of the industry

The chairman is still pre-occupied with the business of the FSA

Some advisers now fear they are living in a training vacuum as, under the old PIA, the adviser and h...