Advisers want FSA guidance on what terminology to use in client agreements after it contacted two firms over unfair contract terms (UCTs).

Clive Waller, director at CWC Research, takes a closer look at what CP 09/31 could mean for protection IFAs...

Mark Lisle, compliance manager at Rowanmoor Pensions, says the insurance industry has a long way to go before it has fair customer treatment at its heart...

Billionnaire investor George Soros has called gold "the ultimate bubble", igniting fears prices for the precious metal may soon slide.

Firms must not add early repayment charges on top of arrears charges as part of a raft of measures designed to ensure the fair treatment of mortgage holders in arrears.

Tony Blair has signed a lucrative contract with a hedge fund that bet on the collapse of Northern Rock.

Britain's economy will take until 2012 to get back to where it was before the financial crisis, despite the end of Britain's worst recession since the 1930s, the CBI has warned.

IFA consolidation business Succession Advisory Services has hired former Bluefin wealth manager developer Geoff Matthews as business development director.

The RDR, in its current guise, will likely lead to both a drop in adviser numbers and product purchases, according to recently-formed lobby group Adviser Alliance. So it has put together its own, alternative, RDR...

The FSA remains undecided over how to apply its adviser charging rules to platforms less than three months before a planned Policy Statement and amid growing calls for the total unbundling of costs.