Origen Financial Services is to launch a restricted advice proposition for the workplace market in the new year.

National AWD Chase de Vere is to be rebranded as Chase de Vere as parent company Swiss Life has said it will drop the AWD part of its brand.

Investec Structured Products has released details of its Retail Distribution Review (RDR) adviser charging model, with the aim of servicing a range of adviser business models after the 31 December.

London & Colonial's multi-platform self invested personal pension (SIPP) and multi-platform open annuity have been made available via the Cofunds platform.

RETIREMENT

Providers have lost their primary means of competing with one another and are "starting to seem desperate" ahead of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), Phil Billingham operations director of Perceptive Planning has said.

There is a danger that loss-making provider-owned networks will fall foul of the Financial Standard Authority's (FSA) rules on cross subsidsation, according to one network director.

LEGAL SERVICES

More than two fifths (41%) of advisers believe that one of the main challenges to their preparedness for the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) is communicating the changes to clients, according to research released today.

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