RDR

PROFESSIONALISM

Multi-manager investment boutique Architas is launching a Multi-Asset Blended range of eight funds, combining active and passive management styles.

Sanlam Private Wealth (SPW) has acquired the client bank of Twickenham-based IFA Camilleri & Associates.

Chichester-based IFA firm CPN Investment Management has launched Money on Toast, an online advice service that aims to provide simplified advice to those who find traditional advice inaccessible or too expensive.

The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) is set to see an explosion of advice "brokers", instead of restricted or independent advisers, according to Panacea IFA.

An "explosion" in regulatory costs is becoming a "huge problem" for networks and national advisory businesses, according to a director at Lighthouse Group.

CHARGING

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has completed its consultation on the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), according to Lansons' head of regulatory consulting.

AWD Chase de Vere has stressed it will remain independent post-RDR and will not develop a restricted or simplified advice offering.

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