Financial advisers are renewing calls for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to make better use of the 'exceptionally severe' fines it levies on the industry, including by using them to cut regulatory costs.
National IFA LEBC has opened an office in Kent staffed by three advisers who moved to the firm from rival Origen Financial Services.
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Ministers have given out mixed messages on when the government will intervene against providers failing to offer full pension flexibility.
Rupert Harrison,former chief of staff to Chancellor George Osborne, is to take up a new role at BlackRock to help develop its retirement proposition.
Former pensions minister Steve Webb will make a keynote speech at the upcoming Retirement Planner Forum and Awards on 17 June.
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on widening the definition of 'standard assets' for providers of self-invested personal pensions (SIPP) to cut the cost of incoming capital adequacy requirements.