The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has started a thematic review into firms' non-advised investment sales and delivery of 'simplified' advice.
Aspire to retire has signed up to provide the 400+ members of the FINANCIAL network with a non-advised annuity service.
The creator of a non-advised online fund selection tool for investors has called on more advisers to develop their own online technology.
Is yours an advisory business considering an execution-only offering? If so, then Colin Jackson, of Baronworth Investments, suggests you think very carefully about the following...
The protection market has started to recover over the last year, but it is being propped up by resurging critical illness sales, according to FSA figures.
LifeSearch has been asked by AIFA to help the ABI develop a guideline script for advisers selling critical illness insurance (CI).
Aegon has begun a campaign to highlight the importance of the adviser market in the face of stiff competition from internet sales.
Advisers must take responsibility for improving protection sales and encouraging innovation in the market, according to speakers at IFAonline.tv's latest forum - the Great Protection Debate .
A call has gone out to IFAs and financial planners to use their commercial muscle to put pressure on product providers and reform information given to consumers in non-advised sales.