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Laura Miller

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A journalist since 2009, Laura is in her second stint as news editor of Professional Adviser, where she has worked for a number of years. She specialises in uncovering problems in retail finance, and has reported on some of the biggest failures in the investment world, including Keydata, Arch Cru and Harlequin Property.

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End game for Harlequin? High Court orders chairman to pay investors £1.3m
  • Regulation
End game for Harlequin? High Court orders chairman to pay investors £1.3m

Ruling handed down in London

  • 22 February 2016
Graph: The awkward £1bn question about adviser discipline
  • Investment
Graph: The awkward £1bn question about adviser discipline

Is this what a well-functioning sector looks like?

  • 18 February 2016
Trouble for Architas target-date funds sees promoter exit
  • Investment
Trouble for Architas target-date funds sees promoter exit

Advisers' rumoured to be shunning small investor range

  • 18 February 2016
A million UK investors exposed to P2P and crowdfunding
  • Your profession
A million UK investors exposed to P2P and crowdfunding

Money flooding into sector up 84%

  • 17 February 2016
London & Capital sells adviser-only model portfolios arm
  • Investment
London & Capital sells adviser-only model portfolios arm

Buyer's big push into UK market

  • 17 February 2016
PFS backs FAMR commission solution that already exists
  • Your profession
PFS backs FAMR commission solution that already exists

Way to avoid big upfront costs

  • 17 February 2016
Revealed: Fraction of advisers disciplined as bad advice costs near £1bn
  • Your profession
Revealed: Fraction of advisers disciplined as bad advice costs near £1bn

Regulatory action against less than 1% of advisers since 2010

  • 15 February 2016
Revealed: FSCS complaints cost each adviser 'obscene' £45k in six years
  • Regulation
Revealed: FSCS complaints cost each adviser 'obscene' £45k in six years

£1bn in complaints costs since 2010

  • 11 February 2016
Capita pays off Arch cru investors to escape court ruling
  • Investment
Capita pays off Arch cru investors to escape court ruling

Investors get secret deal

  • 10 February 2016
Lifeline for Lloyds' investors in high interest bond fight
  • Investment
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.

  • 09 February 2016
FCA chief: We are not here to be popular
  • Regulation
FCA chief: We are not here to be popular

McDermott hits back at critics

  • 05 February 2016
Age UK under fire for Just Retirement equity release commissions
  • Equity release
Age UK under fire for Just Retirement equity release commissions

Charity also facing questions over energy deals

  • 04 February 2016
Bankruptcy for claims firm targeting tax avoidance investments
  • Tax Planning
Bankruptcy for claims firm targeting tax avoidance investments

Crowdfund investors set to lose £800k

  • 04 February 2016
Adviser anger at watchdogs who 'ignored' £50m scam alerts until too late
  • Investment
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.

  • 02 February 2016
Ex-Bestinvest CIO reappears at 'financial architects'
  • Your profession
Ex-Bestinvest CIO reappears at 'financial architects'

Graham Frost left Bestinvest in 2012

  • 01 February 2016
Three things clients may call you about...
  • Your profession
Three things clients may call you about...

Weekend stories that could spark calls

  • 01 February 2016
UPDATE: Tilney Bestinvest Towry takeover denied
  • Your profession
UPDATE: Tilney Bestinvest Towry takeover denied

Towry put up for sale in 2015

  • 01 February 2016
Old Mutual Wealth's Jeremy Charles and Carlton Hood to exit
  • Your profession
Old Mutual Wealth's Jeremy Charles and Carlton Hood to exit

COO and customer director to step down

  • 28 January 2016
Blow to SFO as sixth ex-broker acquitted of Libor-rigging
  • Regulation
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.

  • 28 January 2016
Advisers wary of new FCA chief's backtrack from 'shoot first' Wheatley
  • Regulation
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.

  • 28 January 2016
Second adviser win as FCA acts on new 'liars' loans'
  • Your profession
Second adviser win as FCA acts on new 'liars' loans'

Advisers previously warned about the products

  • 28 January 2016
A SIPP from the devil's cup? The crisis in the wings
  • Pensions
A SIPP from the devil's cup? The crisis in the wings

Laura Miller takes stock of a troubled SIPP market

  • 27 January 2016
What do we know about the man taking the helm of the FCA?
  • Your profession
What do we know about the man taking the helm of the FCA?

Andrew Bailey to take over in July

  • 26 January 2016
AJ Bell snaps up three investment firms in growth drive
  • Wrap/platforms
AJ Bell snaps up three investment firms in growth drive

Plans to launch own fund range

  • 21 January 2016
Japan stocks enter bear territory as oil falls below $28
  • Economics / Markets
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.

  • 20 January 2016
Pay your taxes, the ethical argument is over
  • Tax planning
Pay your taxes, the ethical argument is over

HMRC clampdown makes avoidance a high-priced risk

  • 19 January 2016
Three things clients may call you about...
  • Investment
Three things clients may call you about...

Hot topics from the weekend papers

  • 18 January 2016
Harlequin boss in high stakes court showdown with investors
  • Investment
Harlequin boss in high stakes court showdown with investors

Ames could face bankruptcy

  • 14 January 2016
SIPP advice in FCA's sights with warning to firm CEO
  • Pensions
SIPP advice in FCA's sights with warning to firm CEO

Latest alert on SIPP advice

  • 12 January 2016
Industry bill for Harlequin clean-up could hit £120m
  • Investment
Industry bill for Harlequin clean-up could hit £120m

Main distributors already triggered £60m payout

  • 06 January 2016
  • Regulation
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.

  • 17 December 2015
Should advisers offer a scam 'sense check' service?
  • Your profession
Should advisers offer a scam 'sense check' service?

Expertise applied ad-hoc for a fixed fee

  • 17 December 2015
  • Your profession
Three things that changed advice forever in 2015

Brave new world

  • 11 December 2015
  • Your profession
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.

  • 10 December 2015
  • Investment
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.

  • 09 December 2015
FCA finds 60% of wealth managers' portfolios close to unsuitable
  • Regulation
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.

  • 09 December 2015
  • Your profession
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.

  • 08 December 2015
Advisers' reasons to be cheerful in 2016
  • Your profession
Advisers' reasons to be cheerful in 2016

Spread the happiness

  • 07 December 2015
Advised sales set to slump after bumper 2014 - FCA data
  • Regulation
Advised sales set to slump after bumper 2014 - FCA data

Drop is similar in non-advised arena as annuity sales slide

  • 01 December 2015
FCA considers raising FOS redress limit above £150k for SMEs
  • Regulation
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.

  • 27 November 2015
Domino effect: The asset class risks of a US rate hike
  • Economics / Markets
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...

  • 26 November 2015
  • Economics / Markets
Autumn Statement 2015: Quickfire reaction to all the key moves

Experts views on today's changes

  • 25 November 2015
  • Tax planning
Doubling of small business rate relief extended until 2017

Govt also reviewing business rates

  • 25 November 2015
  • Economics / Markets
Stamp duty to rise by 3% on BTL and second homes

Increase comes in from April 2016

  • 25 November 2015
  • Regulation
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.

  • 19 November 2015
  • Investment
Holy Grail found: The UK funds reliably rewarding long-term investors

Outperforming their peers year-in year-out

  • 19 November 2015
  • Regulation
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".

  • 18 November 2015
  • Regulation
The rewards of white collar crime

Why would anyone commit a physical crime when non-physical crime is so much more rewarding?

  • 17 November 2015
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