Industry

Positive Solutions is inviting IFAs to attend its series of Synergy roadshows covering opportunities in the investment, pensions and protection markets.

As many as 65% of 18-35 year olds don't know who the Chancellor of the Exchequer is, according to new research from 1st The Exchange.

Perspective Financial Group Ltd, the consolidation vehicle for IFAs, has posted a profit in its first year of trading and says it is on target to acquire more businesses in 2009.

Financial and insurance services firms are still concerned about the basic skills of new recruits, with 90% now discussing the issue at board level, a survey suggests.

The founder of the modern FSA and its first chairman is urging financial advisers to revisit the files of their more adventurous clients to guard against any "unpleasantness" in the current climate.

The FSA today admits its disclosure rules for mortgage advisers are inadequate, but suggests the industry is at least partly to blame for allowing it to introduce one of the mortgage arena's biggest evils - self-certification.

The FSA is considering an RDR-style review of the way mortgage brokers are remunerated, following concerns over commission bias.

An entire department of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) is at home in quarantine after a colleague returned from the US with probable swine flu.

There should be a greater level of "productive overlap" between the Bank of England and FSA on financial supervision, according to a Government report on regulatory reform.

A merger between mortgage sourcing provider Trigold and point of sale solutions firm Crystal has been finalised, IFAonline understands.