RDR

Standard Life has updated its Retail Distribution Review (RDR) offering with the addition of adviser charging on Standard Life Retail International Bond and annuities.

Helen Morrissey speaks to Almary Green's managing director Carl Lamb about the firm's award-winning year and its preparations for RDR

Philip Brown goes through how advisers should communicate with clients about their business model

The impact of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) will not be felt by many consumers until the middle of next year when they make their half yearly visit to their adviser, potentially building up a bottleneck of discussions about fees, Prudential has...

Brooks Macdonald Funds (BMF) has introduced a clean share class across its fund range.

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Santander is to suspend its team of 800 advisers while they undergo an intensive training programme to ensure they are fully skilled for the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

Building society Nationwide has stopped offering pension advice and withdrawn its stakeholder product because it cannot facilitate adviser charging.

Advice firms must send the Financial Services Authority (FSA) data on all of their advisers' professional standards by the 29 January 2013.

Some large adviser networks may be forced to "tackle" their independent advisers and switch to a restricted advice proposition in order to survive, according to one chief executive.