Regulation

The discretionary fund management arena has become over populated of late and this trend is likely to continue in the run up to the Retail Distribution Review.

The FSA has defended its decision to give accredited bodies permission to mandate membership before issuing advisers with a practicing certificate.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has written to price comparison websites urging them to ensure they comply with regulation.

The chairman and senior directors at the FSA shared more than £2.6m in salaries, bonuses and benefits in the year to 31 March, documents show.

Five of the six professional bodies provisionally awarded by the FSA with accredited status this week will mandate membership before issuing advisers with practicing certificates. Want to know who they are?

Maybe the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) does not really matter at all.

US Treasury secretary Tim Geithner yesterday panned the UK's "light touch" regulation in the build up to the financial crisis.

As part of a new, regular feature cutting to the core of some of the industry's key developments, IFAonline takes a quick look at accredited bodies...

The Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) and the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) have been named among six organisations that will operate as accredited bodies under the FSA's new training and competence regime.

Firms must ensure retail clients can cancel an ongoing service provided by their adviser without also having to withdraw their investments, the FSA says.