Jersey is to adopt its version of UK RDR regulations by 2014, the island's Financial Services Commission (FRC) has confirmed.
Concerns are mounting over the number of orphaned clients post-RDR after the FSA said a customer's new adviser could inherit their existing trail commission.
The most amusing point about the "infernally-insular" debate on whether IFA or restricted is best, according to Openwork head of strategy Campbell Macpherson, is that the people who ultimately pay advisers' wages couldn't care less.
In the latest Interactive Financial Adviser debate, our panelists from L&G, Informed Choice Ltd and Prudential discussed RDR.
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A City law firm says a judicial review into the legality of forcing existing advisers to sit further qualifications would stand little chance of success after the idea was mooted by lobby group Adviser Alliance.
Services provider Tenet has been given prior learning accreditation by the CII to develop, administer and mark an alternative to the JO5 Pensions Income Options exam module.