Regulation

Some employers are fretful about discussing automatic enrolment with their employees for fear of straying into "heavily regulated" financial advice, a study suggests.

Fiona Murphy takes a look at how advisers are adjusting to life after the Retail Distribution Review in this month's Inquiry

The Financial Services Authority's (FSA) proposal to ban the promotion of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) to retail investors is the one move it has made which is likely to actually save people money, according to wealth manager Courtiers....

A barrister convicted of tax fraud for failing to pay more than £600,000 in VAT was sentenced to three and a half years in prison today.

BUGBEARS

An IFA has claimed a number of providers have agreed to pay him compensation following a raft of "significant" delays and mistakes he believes have been caused by their failure to be ready for a post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR) world.

FRESH START

National IFA and consolidator Bellpenny has agreed a deal to use Capita Financial Software's research and risk profiling tool Synaptic Fusion.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been called in to investigate Harlequin Property, a UK-based overseas property sales agent that is not regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), according to reports.

Two-thirds of clean share classes are more expensive than their bundled equivalents, according to research by consultancy firm Adviser Asset.