Mark Polson reviews Nucleus's social media experiment, Speakeasy

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) board has called in lawyers to investigate the regulator's handling of the revelation it is to examine the fair treatment of "long standing" customers in life insurance products, a revelation which sparked huge losses...

Aviva has played down the potential impact on its bottom line of a regulatory probe into the closed life insurance policy market.

Amati Global Investors, which runs venture capital trusts the Amati VCT and Amati VCT 2, is to waive future performance fees.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has clarified the scope of its investigation into how customers in 'closed' life company products are being treated, indicating it will not review sales practices or necessarily act on exit fees.

Invesco Perpetual has announced that Mark Barnett's Invesco Perpetual High Income fund will move out of the IMA Equity Income sector and into the IMA UK All Companies sector on 31 March.

Investment advisers' share of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme's (FSCS) next annual levy, which is due to be announced next month, will include an extra £30m after it began processing investor claims against ARM bonds distributor Catalyst Investment...

Advisers will find it difficult to develop much-needed cheaper advice models until the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) lowers its costs, the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has said.

Pensions expert Ros Altmann has called for retirees to have access to "specialist basic advice", not unregulated guidance, as several of the pension changes announced at Budget 2014 come into force.

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) is calling on members and other advisers to detail how much they spend on regulation and compliance so the regulator "can be held to account".