Consumer group Which? has listed absolute return funds and task-based income protection cover among a list of 'financial products to avoid'.
The government must conduct a full review of the 'uncontrollable' cost of regulation and the impact it is having on businesses, according to Tenet.
Some 40% of IFAs plan to take on a protection paraplanner to boost the commission they receive from protection business post RDR, according to research.
Compensation payments due to consumers mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) slowed in January for the first time since September, with £403m paid in redress.
In this week's quick fire poll we ask: Could pre-funded long-term care insurance products come back into fashion if they had an annuity underpin?
The number of complaints related to advising, selling and arranging rocketed from 647,000 in the first half of last year to almost 1.1 million in the second half, according to figures released by the FSA today.
Gary Shaughnessy, head of Fidelity's retail business, is leaving the firm to become chief executive of Zurich's UK life business.