RDR

Why a platform should be judged on more than just AUM

- What client segment or segments will you serve? HNWIs, mass affluent or the mass market?

JLT Wealth Management has unveiled a telephone-based advice service for its individual and corporate clients in preparation for the retail distribution review (RDR).

Advisers must tell clients buying advice lets them transfer some of the liability for transactions to their IFA, Stephen Gay, director general of the Association of IFAs (AIFA) said.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to conduct 'regulatory reviews' of small businesses and tour a series of workshops to give firms face-to-face time with the regulator.

A ranking system for IFAs and planners is inevitable post-RDR, according to a number of leading industry figures.

Critics of The Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) Bill - the Australian government's attempt to reform its retail investment distribution market - say it will decimate the nation's adviser numbers and orphan millions of clients, in a stirring echo of some...

The FSA is to scrutinise the quality of advice given by firms who operate a 'centralised investment proposition' ahead of the implementation of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

Mark Lisle, compliance manager at Rowanmoor Pensions, on why RDR is not a panacea for consumer protection

In the fourth of a six-part series on preparing for RDR, Bruce Moss, strategy director at Advisa Centa, offers some advice on determining your clients' attitude to risk.