Perspective Financial Group reduced its losses in 2010 after acquiring nine firms and more than doubling its assets under management.

Verbatim Asset Management has had its risk profilling tools approved by the Plain English Campaign, after the Financial Services Authority (FSA) warned of a crack down on jargon when dealing with clients.

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) has warned of the potential human rights implications of FSA proposals to collect individual adviser complaints data.

A warning about underperforming Child Trust Funds, dividends on the rise again, and the pros and cons of low-cost funds. Here is IFAonline's round-up of the weekend's national newspapers...

Support services provider threesixty is planning to use its experience of dealing with the retail distribution review (RDR) to expand internationally to countries where financial planning is developing or undergoing similar reforms.

IFAs could have help with the paperwork from their local MP as part of a scheme to make law makers better understand the realities of running a small company.

And five big stories this week were...

Rahul Odedra says its time the FSA started listening to the TSC on RDR

FSA chief executive Hector Sants insists the regulator is considering the Treasury Select Committee's recommendations on the RDR, following an angry letter from TSC chairman Andrew Tyrie.

The chairman of the Treasury Select Committee (TSC) has criticised the FSA's "pre-emptory" response to its report into the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), which called for a one-year delay to RDR implementation.