Wealth managers

All the major retail banks and most medium-sized and smaller firms have made "significant" changes to their sales incentive schemes, but concerns over enticements linked to bank investment and protection sales remain, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has declared itself pleased with platforms' progress towards meeting new rules due to be introduced next month, though it has highlighted some areas in need of improvement and called for "further progress" on re-registration....

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is investigating the US-based parent group of UK fund giant Invesco Perpetual over its past compliance with the regulator's rules.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has said it no longer expects to raise an interim levy on investment advisers for the 2013/14 period.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Forex Capital Markets and FXCM Securities (FXCM UK) £4m for allowing the US-based FXCM Group to withhold profits worth £6m that should have been passed on to the UK business' clients.

Investment Management Association (IMA) chief executive Daniel Godfrey says we should "interrogate quite hard" the assertion that the price of fund management has dropped elsewhere in the world, but not in the UK.

The chief executive of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) Mark Neale has defended his organisation's multi-million pound spend on marketing, saying it will help protect the industry from detrimental consumer behaviour.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is reminding investors that the deadline for filing for compensation from the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) is the last day of February.

The passing of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) into law has made it compulsory for UK investment firms to disclose the total cost of their investments to their clients.

The Investment Management Association has said it is open to the prospect of 'radical change' as it sets out recommendations for the use of dealing commission to purchase investment research.