Regulation

Watch our latest interview with the CII about your gap fill needs in the run-up to RDR, and your CPD requirements after it.

Perspective Financial's Julie Hepworth outlines how firms can satisfy a regulator growing hungrier and hungrier for firms' sales data...

In the latest in our exclusive series of gap fill articles helping you prepare for RDR, Jackie Lockie covers everything you need to know about the main investment theories…

Simmering debate about whether a financial planner offers better value to clients than a financial adviser "is completely misleading and sterile", according to threesixty head of business consultancy Phil Billingham.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) saw the number of claims received increase by 25% last year, as well as a 75% rise in enquiries.

Independent, whole-of-market advice will be the preserve of the better-off once rules set out in the retail distribution review (RDR) are implemented, according to industry veteran Keith Carby.

Bill Vasilieff, CEO of Novia, explains why the growth of Lifestyle planning tools may help bring down the surprisingly high number of firms failing to properly assess client suitability…

GBST Wealth Management's Robert DeDominicis says consumers' financial illiteracy is the biggest barrier to RDR success.

Informed Choice chief executive Nick Bamford and chief executive of the Institute of Financial Planning Nick Cann give their verdict on yesterday's Financial Services Authority meeting on the future of regulation.

The FSA has banned two independent advisers over suitability of advice failings, but both have escaped fines due to financial hardship.