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The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has proposed to increase its levy on the industry by 5% while freezing case fees for the fourth year running.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed changes to the amounts of accessible capital investment advisory businesses must hold to absorb potential losses or redress claims.

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Gordon Brown has joined global investment management firm Pimco as an adviser on economic and political issues.

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Low fees change consumer perception of the value of advice

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The owners of independent advice firm Towry have brought forward plans for a sale, according to reports, quashing expectations of a stock market float for now.

In his last column of the year, Graham Bentley rails against what he sees as the corruption of sound academic theories by the industry in a bid to shift more products...