Regulation

Self-invested personal pensions (SIPP) should not buckle under regulatory pressure to become plain vanilla share class wrappers as clients need diversification in their portfolios, Mattioli Woods has said.

Carbon credit adviser Archer Bramley has been named as one of 28 investment and pensions firms declared in default by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) between May and August.

Regulators fear rush to the exit

Guardian SIPP is in talks to allow investors trapped in troubled investments to buy their way out of paying mounting administration fees, and to have direct access to any money clawed back from the firms deemed liable for their losses.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has had its attempt to ban a director of failed investment firm Catalyst rejected.

Troubled overseas property group Harlequin is encouraging investors to use compensation payouts to reinvest in its scheme - at the same time as it fights a settlement deal it reached with unhappy investors last year.

A tax avoidance advice 'timebomb' built up over a decade could send a "significant" number of new claims to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) now that the body has agreed to deal with similar cases, a firm representing unhappy clients...

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has determined that financial advisers are liable for investors' losses in £60m property investment scheme Arck and has begun inviting claims.

Advisers are calling on regulators to introduce rules restricting the contact product providers can have with their clients.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has said the 150 claims it is investigating against poor advice to invest in apparently tax efficient schemes relate to business written in the decade from 2000.