Regulation

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned two former Freedom SIPP directors, John James Quarrell and Susan McKenzie Beaumont, from working in the financial services industry.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is planning to widen its review into firms' sales incentives following an assessment last year which uncovered widespread failings among those operating incentive schemes.

A former sales trader at Legal & General's investment management arm and a broker are the latest defendants to face charges in the Financial Services Authority's (FSA) biggest insider-trading investigation.

Legal & General (L&G) decided not to charge an hourly rate to clients using its restricted service because doing so could have done "dis-service" to them, according to the group's managing director for banks and building societies.

With a little help from a decades-old theory, Caspar Rock, CIO at Architas, assesses the very real differences between client risk appetite and capacity for loss

Banks will see the opportunities in giving advice and will come back to the market, according to Legal & General (L&G).

The current scope of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) is only a temporary measure which will be expanded to mortgage and insurance advisers in the future, according to consumer finance expert Jasmine Birtles.

Restricted wealth manager Towry is planning a "busy" year of acquisition, according to its CEO.

Aviva Investors has introduced Retail Distribution Review (RDR)-ready share classes for a range of its most popular funds to cater for the needs of UK advisers and intermediaries.

Just 2% of advisers in the Tenet network have gone restricted, after the firm encouraged members to remain independent.