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End game for Harlequin? High Court orders chairman to pay investors £1.3m
Ruling handed down in London
Graph: The awkward £1bn question about adviser discipline
Is this what a well-functioning sector looks like?
Trouble for Architas target-date funds sees promoter exit
Advisers' rumoured to be shunning small investor range
A million UK investors exposed to P2P and crowdfunding
Money flooding into sector up 84%
London & Capital sells adviser-only model portfolios arm
Buyer's big push into UK market
PFS backs FAMR commission solution that already exists
Way to avoid big upfront costs
Revealed: Fraction of advisers disciplined as bad advice costs near £1bn
Regulatory action against less than 1% of advisers since 2010
Revealed: FSCS complaints cost each adviser 'obscene' £45k in six years
£1bn in complaints costs since 2010
Capita pays off Arch cru investors to escape court ruling
Investors get secret deal
Lifeline for Lloyds' investors in high interest bond fight
Investors in bonds issued by Lloyds Bank are to have have their appeal heard by the highest court in the land in a fight against the lender's attempts to repurchase their assets at cut price.
FCA chief: We are not here to be popular
McDermott hits back at critics
Age UK under fire for Just Retirement equity release commissions
Charity also facing questions over energy deals
Bankruptcy for claims firm targeting tax avoidance investments
Crowdfund investors set to lose £800k
Adviser anger at watchdogs who 'ignored' £50m scam alerts until too late
An adviser has told how he was left suffering clinical depression and reliant on anti-depressants after he fell for a £50m scam City watchdogs repeatedly flouted warnings to shut down.
Ex-Bestinvest CIO reappears at 'financial architects'
Graham Frost left Bestinvest in 2012
Three things clients may call you about...
Weekend stories that could spark calls
UPDATE: Tilney Bestinvest Towry takeover denied
Towry put up for sale in 2015
Old Mutual Wealth's Jeremy Charles and Carlton Hood to exit
COO and customer director to step down
Blow to SFO as sixth ex-broker acquitted of Libor-rigging
A London jury has found an ex-broker not guilty of rigging the inter-bank lending rate Libor, a day after five others were also acquitted, in a major blow for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) which brought the case.
Advisers wary of new FCA chief's backtrack from 'shoot first' Wheatley
Advisers have broadly welcomed the incoming head of the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) shift away from the tough stance of his predecessor, but are wary it heralds a softening approach to wrongdoers.
Second adviser win as FCA acts on new 'liars' loans'
Advisers previously warned about the products
A SIPP from the devil's cup? The crisis in the wings
Laura Miller takes stock of a troubled SIPP market
What do we know about the man taking the helm of the FCA?
Andrew Bailey to take over in July
AJ Bell snaps up three investment firms in growth drive
Plans to launch own fund range
Japan stocks enter bear territory as oil falls below $28
Asian markets took a tumble overnight as the price of crude oil continued to sink.
Pay your taxes, the ethical argument is over
HMRC clampdown makes avoidance a high-priced risk
Three things clients may call you about...
Hot topics from the weekend papers
Harlequin boss in high stakes court showdown with investors
Ames could face bankruptcy
SIPP advice in FCA's sights with warning to firm CEO
Latest alert on SIPP advice
Industry bill for Harlequin clean-up could hit £120m
Main distributors already triggered £60m payout
FCA bans advice chief over £2m losses from high risk schemes
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned the former director of an advice firm for causing clients to lose more than £2m in high risk schemes.
Should advisers offer a scam 'sense check' service?
Expertise applied ad-hoc for a fixed fee
Three things that changed advice forever in 2015
Brave new world
Adviser loses fight as FOS backs Aegon over widow's 'mis-sold' pension
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has dismissed a widow's complaint that Aegon mis-sold her late husband an annuity that meant she got next to nothing when he died suddenly.
Celebrity tax avoidance scheme seeks backing for Supreme Court fight
A film scheme that was ruled to have been used by investors including high-profile celebrities solely to avoid tax plans to take its fight to the highest court in the land.
FCA finds 60% of wealth managers' portfolios close to unsuitable
Investment advisers still need to make "substantial" improvements in demonstrating the suitability of their advice, despite a series of warnings, the regulator has found.
Store pod salesmen embroiled in £100m pension fraud allegations
Salesmen selling investments in self-storage units have said they lied and forged documents to persuade investors to part with pensions worth £100m.
Advisers' reasons to be cheerful in 2016
Spread the happiness
Advised sales set to slump after bumper 2014 - FCA data
Drop is similar in non-advised arena as annuity sales slide
FCA considers raising FOS redress limit above £150k for SMEs
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is considering raising the redress limit available to small business complainants from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) above its current limit of £150,000.
Domino effect: The asset class risks of a US rate hike
Investors across the globe are holding their breath ahead of December's Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting, to see if it raises the US interest rates. But is it that big a deal? Potentially. This is why...
Autumn Statement 2015: Quickfire reaction to all the key moves
Experts views on today's changes
Doubling of small business rate relief extended until 2017
Govt also reviewing business rates
Stamp duty to rise by 3% on BTL and second homes
Increase comes in from April 2016
HBOS report damns FSA for being 'too trusting'
A report into the collapse of Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) has given a damning verdict on the then regulator's role in failing to spot or prevent the bank's failure.
Holy Grail found: The UK funds reliably rewarding long-term investors
Outperforming their peers year-in year-out
Adviser faces court fight with lead generation firm
A financial adviser is poised for a legal showdown with a controversial lead generation firm employing a banned IFA, after he said it failed so dramatically to provide the advertised service it amounted to "deception and fraud".
The rewards of white collar crime
Why would anyone commit a physical crime when non-physical crime is so much more rewarding?