RDR

The FSA believes there is there is no consumer detriment in allowing advisers who operate under COBS rules to maintain their current commission based charging.

The FSA has indicated it is leaning towards abolishing all payments to platforms from product providers.

The FSA has made a major upward revision of the RDR's costs in its policy statement today.

AIC director general Ian Sayers discusses how the investment trust industry has coped with the financial crisis and regulatory pressures

Regulation is laying the foundations for funds of ETFs and greater adoption of these products among IFAs, writes Matthew Craig.

Several milestones in the exchange traded funds (ETF) industry are expected in 2010, with global assets under management having recently passed $1trn and the 1,000th product likely to launch soon

The introduction of exchange-traded funds that are cheap, transparent and easy to trade has heralded a recent explosion in the number of different types of strategies available to the investor.

Stock market experts are warning of another year of dividend famine as some of Britain's biggest dividend mainstays struggle to maintain payments to shareholders.

Fund distribution has changed dramatically in the last 15 years and with the RDR, just one of many things shaking up the industry, the rate of change can only accelerate, says Kira Nickerson, former editor of Investment Week

With a history that goes back over 140 years, the investment trust sector has seen it all, but what does the future hold?