RDR

Axa Wealth has announced a restructure of its sales and support team in a move which puts 50 jobs at risk.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has awarded accredited body status to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and the Pensions Management Institute (PMI).

St James's Place (SJP) has rejected accusations that the company is sales-driven.

A quarter of advisory businesses have not yet reviewed their client propositions with the retail distribution review (RDR) in mind, research suggests.

Will the public ever accept an invoice for financial advice? Mark Lisle, compliance manager at Rowanmoor Pensions, says a new form of polarisation appears to be evolving…

FundsNetwork has urged the regulator to change tack and include platform re-registration under adviser charging principles as part of a wide-ranging critique of the regulator's legacy asset paper.

Jason Britton, formerly a fund manager at T. Bailey, has launched an investment management consultancy ahead of the retail distribution review (RDR).

Platform FundsNetwork is developing functionality to allow advisers to declare whether or not their post-RDR activities constitute "advice" in a bid to clear up ambiguities surrounding legacy commission.

IFAs around the country are charging vastly different fees for the same work and should be forced to publish transparent fee menus, Which? has said.

BDO director of risk and regulation Alex Ellerton wonders whether the FSA wants trail commission to cease on a fund switch.