RDR

Former Standard Life head of distribution Peter Jolly is joining the ABI to help channel members to be RDR compliant.

Honister Capital has partnered with Scottish Widows to offer its 1,500 advisers access to Widows' online learning academy as it seeks to fast-track its IFAs to QCF Level 4.

The ultimate aim of the RDR could be undermined by the FSA asking providers to monitor the activities of advisers, leading industry figures say.

Openwork chief executive Martin Davis says the advice sector is, yet again, in a state of flux.

Axa's Graham Harvey asks if proposals to 'read-across' the RDR to protection risk demeaning the treating customers fairly (TCF) principles...

The RDR is not to blame for the challenges now facing the advice sector, Skandia says, with the inspiration for change coming from advisers themselves.

The FSA has announced what had seemed inevitable given the pressure on them to maintain high standards of suitability in the face of unprecedented consumer concern.

Three years and more than 1,100 days on from Callum McCarthy's infamous Gleneagles speech, in which he set plans for the RDR, the issue still hugely divides the financial services industry.

IFA support services provider threesixty has expanded the education support it provides financial advisers as the industry prepares itself to meet demands for higher standards of professionalism.

The RDR represents a bad deal for consumers, according to a former FSA consultant.