The FSA is likely to bow to stakeholder pressure by dropping plans to force firms to hold three months' worth of fixed costs as part of its capital requirements for investment advisers, Professional Adviser understands.

Despite an increasingly busy fourth quarter for many in the industry, it is unlikely to have escaped too many people's notice that the possible impact of the "Solvency II" directive on annuities is already attracting a lot of negative and nervous attention....

Bankhall managing director David Golder yesterday told more than 600 of the support provider's member IFAs they had become "collateral damage" in regulators' war against the banks, and called on them to unite against RDR proposals he argues will "decimate"...

Association of IFAs (AIFA) director general Chris Cummings has pledged to continue the fight for work-based assessments of financial advisers not yet qualified to the required QCF Level 4 standard.

All 50,000 pages of current pension legislation would be the first item into SIPPs Room 101, Suffolk Life marketing director John Moret says...

Tiger Woods strikes a perfect ball yet still employs a coach, so how can advisers ensure they continue to improve? FP Advance chief executive Brett Davidson says friends, family and even clients can help...

Mark Loosmore of AT8 Group begins his look at how distributors are using technology to get RDR-ready...

An FSA-led review of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) will include an assessment of the composition of classes and sub-classes as well as the annual thresholds each class can be asked to pay, the regulator has confirmed.

Axa protection guru Graham Harvey says one way to bridge the protection gap may be to start hitting consumers with the facts...

Confusion will reign among consumers if advisers are forced to divulge to clients the total expense ratio (TER) of their investments in mandatory disclosure documents, industry figures argue.