RDR

Positive Solutions has added access to the ifs School of Finance Diploma for financial advisers through its Learning Academy.

Sesame has rolled out the latest phase of its RDR support programme, an academy to help advisers adapt their business to the new regulatory environment.

The Financial Advice Academy (FAA) has questioned the FSA's 2012 timetable for new qualifications standards.

The FSA will not be able to simply read-across its adviser charging rules to the group personal pension (GPP) market, according to industry experts.

It could take five years for IFA firms to overhaul their charging model, leaving them little time to comply with the forthcoming RDR, warns Positive Solutions.

IFA network Sesame says its impending acquisition of Bankhall will give it the "scale" necessary to thrive in a post-RDR world.

SIPPs are future-proofed and will prove robust in the post-RDR world, according to Defaqto.

Hargreaves Lansdown says the biggest question for the firm resulting from the RDR is whether to maintain its ‘independent' label.

The FSA today put an end to advisers' hopes it would re-introduce a time limit on complaints, declaring "we are not moving".

'Restricted' advisers must make clear their limitations both in writing and orally using a "specific" script before any advice takes place, the FSA suggests today.