Regulation

Sue Mallender, senior associate at Bovill, discusses how achievable retaining ‘independent' status will be for advisers seeking to be RDR-ready.

The Government's proposed new regulatory structure is nothing more than a "cosmetic" exercise that will not make a grain of difference, Lansons director of regulatory consulting Richard Hobbs says.

The Treasury Select Committee will have the power to veto the appointment of the new chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), Chancellor George Osborne has said.

The RDR will force many adviser firms into a programme of business change. Fiona Tait, business development manager at Scottish Life, looks at how some firms have already turned it to their advantage.

The FSA has outlined its timetable and intentions for dealing with the splitting of its responsibilities amongst several regulators.

The FSA has accepted it cannot deliver perfect results for consumers regardless of the level of resources for supervision, chairman Adair Turner said today.

The Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) has confirmed it will apply to become an accredited body under plans published in the FSA's latest RDR paper.

Industry figures have painted a "nightmare scenario" resulting from the break-up of the FSA with "horribly troublesome" turf wars breaking out between new regulatory bodies with overlapping functions.

Maria Merricks looks at how the RDR's qualification requirements will impact the adviser community.

Adviser Alliance will lobby the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to take up the anti-RDR cause on competition grounds.